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drudgery|ˈdrʌdʒərɪ|
Also 6 droudgery, 6–7 druggery.
[f. drudge n. + -ery; cf. slavery.]
The occupation of a drudge; mean or servile labour; wearisome toil; dull or distasteful work.
1550Crowley Inform. & Petit. 557 To tyll the grounde and doe your other droudgery. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Elixer v, A servant with this clause Makes drudgerie divine. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 183 Who put them to all Drudgeries and servile Works. 1791Boswell Johnson 10 Apr. an. 1753, He now relieved the drudgery of his Dictionary..by taking an active part in the composition of ‘The Adventurer’. 1879M. Pattison Milton xii. 163 If there is any literary drudgery more mechanical than another, it is generally supposed to be that of making a dictionary. 1890W. C. Gannett Blessed be Drudgery 15 Drudgery is the gray Angel of Success.
β1598Florio, Marruffino, the yoongest prentise in a house, one that is put to all druggerie. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 297 Avaricious plenty is its own Tasker..whose Druggery and Time to serve God cannot consist together.
b. attrib., as in † drudgery work, drudgery servant.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. i. ii. (1651) 42 Familiar spirits, which are there said to be conversant with men, and do their drudgery works. a1654Selden Table-T. (Arb.) 88 They that do drudgery-work. 1801Gabrielli Myster. Husb. IV. 119 A mere drudgery servant. |