drudge
pronunciation
How to pronounce drudge in British English:
UK [drʌdʒ]
How to pronounce drudge in American English:
US [drʌdʒ]
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- Noun:
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
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- Verb:
- work hard
Word Origin
- drudge
- drudge: [15] No one is quite sure where drudge comes from. It is first recorded, as a noun, towards the end of the 15th century, and the verb followed about fifty years later. One possible source may be the Middle English verb drugge ‘pull laboriously’, a possible relative of English drag; another suggestion is the Old English verb drēogan ‘work’.
- drudge (n.)
- late 15c., "one employed in mean, servile, or distasteful work," missing in Old English and Middle English, unless it is represented by Middle English druggen "do menial or monotonous work; druggunge, mid-13c., which are perhaps from Old English dreogan "to work, suffer, endure" (see endure). The verb is from 1540s. Related: Drudged; drudging. The surname is from 13c., probably from Old French dragie "a mixture of grains sown together," thus, a grower of this crop.
Example
- 1. Getting to ba drudge going to the gym .
- 2. I am the drudge on the walls .
- 3. Drudge : a person who does menial , dull or hard work .
- 4. Once a job on a production line was a soul-destroying drudge ; nowadays that label has fallen on service-sector jobs in call centres and fast-food restaurants .
- 5. That is a shame , because their central idea-that the world might be a better place if work was less of a necessary drudge and more of a rewarding experience in itself-is hard to argue with .