Definition of drudge in English:

drudge

noun drʌdʒdrədʒ

A person made to do hard menial or dull work.
she was little more than a drudge round the house
Example sentencesExamples
- Tapestries, to me, had always been dim and dowdy things ravaged by time that no one but an academic drudge could like.
- They were necessary drudges, to be kept firmly in their subordinate places.
- At no point in the story, therefore, is Pip set to be a drudge or a wage slave, though he has nothing of the gentleman about him.
- Anna is a drudge, helping out at a nursery and running around her lazy father and little brother.
- Others live on as hard-working priests or clerical drudges, or as the family man next door or at the next desk.
- A lunchbox tells the world that one is a cautious drudge.
- Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading.
- His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge.
- Should we see them as dreary drudges, blind to the creativity of the Shakespeares and Hemingways who are taking the test?
- And while that is clearly progress, I fear we may simply be swapping one class of exploited drudges for another, as more and more double - income couples ease their hectic schedules by engaging hired help.
- Modern girls, jaded with Charlotte, the domestic drudge, turned to the more exciting Emily for inspiration.
- The orphaned Cinderella is the household drudge for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters.
- Saber opened the tall, ancient wooden doors with a flamboyant push, and stepped in, ready to bestow his declaration upon the inferior drudge currently polishing the hardwood floor of the room.
- Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason.
- It seemed very out of place in the normal crowd of Saturday morning grocery store drudges.
- The image of the doting mother replaced that of the domestic drudge.
- Unlucky, you may labor under the control of a drudge.
- Gradually I became the drudge and, what's more, accepted my role as a kind of second-class citizen.
- I felt myself very much the household drudge, and Stephen was getting all the glittering prizes.
- You have actually started to enjoy being a workaholic drudge.
Synonyms
menial, menial worker, slave, galley slave, toiler, lackey
servant, labourer, hack, worker, maid/man of all work, houseboy, factotum, hewer of wood and drawer of water
informal skivvy, dogsbody, gofer, running dog, runner
North American peon
British dated charwoman, charlady, char
archaic scullion, servitor

verb drʌdʒdrədʒ

[no object]archaic

Do hard menial work.
her husband was drudging in the smoke of London
Example sentencesExamples
- I am drudging at the writing table.
- After an unhappy childhood and some years drudging in London, Ireland liberated Trollope from asthma and gave him the impetus to start writing.
- They needed a reason for drudging through practices with no hope for a postseason.
- In the most memorable of all, Larkin questions a 13-year-old boy sent up from the country by his impoverished parents to drudge in a Rangoon tea shop for four dollars a month.
- He was for a time obliged by poverty to drudge as a parliamentary reporter.
- Jim volunteered to do the dishes, giving Blair more time to drudge through the rest of the test papers.
Synonyms
work hard, labour, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a trojan, work like a dog, work day and night, exert oneself, keep at it, keep one's nose to the grindstone, grind away, slave away, grub away, plough away, plod away

Origin

Middle English (as a noun): of unknown origin; perhaps related to drag.

drag from Middle English:
The word drag comes from the same Old Norse root as draw (Old English), draught (Middle English), the type of cart known as a dray (Late Middle English), and possibly drudge (Middle English). The sense ‘a boring or tiresome person or thing’ developed in the early 19th century from the idea of an attachment that drags and hinders progress. The cumbersomeness of contemporary women's dress may also be behind the use of drag for ‘women's clothing worn by a man’, which is recorded from the 1870s. A street has been a drag since the middle of the 19th century. A description of London life in 1851 records a woman ‘whose husband has got a month for “griddling in the main drag” (singing in the high street)’. The term later became better known in the USA, especially in the main drag.

Rhymes

adjudge, begrudge, bludge, budge, fudge, grudge, judge, misjudge, nudge, pudge, sludge, smudge, trudge

Definition of drudge in US English:

drudge

noundrəjdrədʒ

A person made to do hard menial or dull work.
she was little more than a drudge around the house
Example sentencesExamples
- Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading.
- Others live on as hard-working priests or clerical drudges, or as the family man next door or at the next desk.
- The orphaned Cinderella is the household drudge for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters.
- Saber opened the tall, ancient wooden doors with a flamboyant push, and stepped in, ready to bestow his declaration upon the inferior drudge currently polishing the hardwood floor of the room.
- Anna is a drudge, helping out at a nursery and running around her lazy father and little brother.
- The image of the doting mother replaced that of the domestic drudge.
- Should we see them as dreary drudges, blind to the creativity of the Shakespeares and Hemingways who are taking the test?
- They were necessary drudges, to be kept firmly in their subordinate places.
- A lunchbox tells the world that one is a cautious drudge.
- It seemed very out of place in the normal crowd of Saturday morning grocery store drudges.
- And while that is clearly progress, I fear we may simply be swapping one class of exploited drudges for another, as more and more double - income couples ease their hectic schedules by engaging hired help.
- His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge.
- At no point in the story, therefore, is Pip set to be a drudge or a wage slave, though he has nothing of the gentleman about him.
- Unlucky, you may labor under the control of a drudge.
- Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason.
- You have actually started to enjoy being a workaholic drudge.
- I felt myself very much the household drudge, and Stephen was getting all the glittering prizes.
- Modern girls, jaded with Charlotte, the domestic drudge, turned to the more exciting Emily for inspiration.
- Gradually I became the drudge and, what's more, accepted my role as a kind of second-class citizen.
- Tapestries, to me, had always been dim and dowdy things ravaged by time that no one but an academic drudge could like.
Synonyms
menial, menial worker, slave, galley slave, toiler, lackey

verbdrəjdrədʒ

[no object]archaic

Do hard, menial, or dull work.
Example sentencesExamples
- I am drudging at the writing table.
- They needed a reason for drudging through practices with no hope for a postseason.
- In the most memorable of all, Larkin questions a 13-year-old boy sent up from the country by his impoverished parents to drudge in a Rangoon tea shop for four dollars a month.
- After an unhappy childhood and some years drudging in London, Ireland liberated Trollope from asthma and gave him the impetus to start writing.
- Jim volunteered to do the dishes, giving Blair more time to drudge through the rest of the test papers.
- He was for a time obliged by poverty to drudge as a parliamentary reporter.
Synonyms
work hard, labour, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a trojan, work like a dog, work day and night, exert oneself, keep at it, keep one's nose to the grindstone, grind away, slave away, grub away, plough away, plod away

Origin

Middle English (as a noun): of unknown origin; perhaps related to drag.

单词	drudge
释义	Definition of drudge in English: drudge noun drʌdʒdrədʒ A person made to do hard menial or dull work. she was little more than a drudge round the house Example sentencesExamples Tapestries, to me, had always been dim and dowdy things ravaged by time that no one but an academic drudge could like. They were necessary drudges, to be kept firmly in their subordinate places. At no point in the story, therefore, is Pip set to be a drudge or a wage slave, though he has nothing of the gentleman about him. Anna is a drudge, helping out at a nursery and running around her lazy father and little brother. Others live on as hard-working priests or clerical drudges, or as the family man next door or at the next desk. A lunchbox tells the world that one is a cautious drudge. Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading. His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge. Should we see them as dreary drudges, blind to the creativity of the Shakespeares and Hemingways who are taking the test? And while that is clearly progress, I fear we may simply be swapping one class of exploited drudges for another, as more and more double - income couples ease their hectic schedules by engaging hired help. Modern girls, jaded with Charlotte, the domestic drudge, turned to the more exciting Emily for inspiration. The orphaned Cinderella is the household drudge for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. Saber opened the tall, ancient wooden doors with a flamboyant push, and stepped in, ready to bestow his declaration upon the inferior drudge currently polishing the hardwood floor of the room. Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason. It seemed very out of place in the normal crowd of Saturday morning grocery store drudges. The image of the doting mother replaced that of the domestic drudge. Unlucky, you may labor under the control of a drudge. Gradually I became the drudge and, what's more, accepted my role as a kind of second-class citizen. I felt myself very much the household drudge, and Stephen was getting all the glittering prizes. You have actually started to enjoy being a workaholic drudge. Synonyms menial, menial worker, slave, galley slave, toiler, lackey servant, labourer, hack, worker, maid/man of all work, houseboy, factotum, hewer of wood and drawer of water informal skivvy, dogsbody, gofer, running dog, runner North American peon British dated charwoman, charlady, char archaic scullion, servitor verb drʌdʒdrədʒ [no object]archaic Do hard menial work. her husband was drudging in the smoke of London Example sentencesExamples I am drudging at the writing table. After an unhappy childhood and some years drudging in London, Ireland liberated Trollope from asthma and gave him the impetus to start writing. They needed a reason for drudging through practices with no hope for a postseason. In the most memorable of all, Larkin questions a 13-year-old boy sent up from the country by his impoverished parents to drudge in a Rangoon tea shop for four dollars a month. He was for a time obliged by poverty to drudge as a parliamentary reporter. Jim volunteered to do the dishes, giving Blair more time to drudge through the rest of the test papers. Synonyms work hard, labour, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a trojan, work like a dog, work day and night, exert oneself, keep at it, keep one's nose to the grindstone, grind away, slave away, grub away, plough away, plod away Origin Middle English (as a noun): of unknown origin; perhaps related to drag. drag from Middle English: The word drag comes from the same Old Norse root as draw (Old English), draught (Middle English), the type of cart known as a dray (Late Middle English), and possibly drudge (Middle English). The sense ‘a boring or tiresome person or thing’ developed in the early 19th century from the idea of an attachment that drags and hinders progress. The cumbersomeness of contemporary women's dress may also be behind the use of drag for ‘women's clothing worn by a man’, which is recorded from the 1870s. A street has been a drag since the middle of the 19th century. A description of London life in 1851 records a woman ‘whose husband has got a month for “griddling in the main drag” (singing in the high street)’. The term later became better known in the USA, especially in the main drag. Rhymes adjudge, begrudge, bludge, budge, fudge, grudge, judge, misjudge, nudge, pudge, sludge, smudge, trudge Definition of drudge in US English: drudge noundrəjdrədʒ A person made to do hard menial or dull work. she was little more than a drudge around the house Example sentencesExamples Engraving is often described as a slow and laborious process, and its practitioners as drudges, but this is misleading. Others live on as hard-working priests or clerical drudges, or as the family man next door or at the next desk. The orphaned Cinderella is the household drudge for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. Saber opened the tall, ancient wooden doors with a flamboyant push, and stepped in, ready to bestow his declaration upon the inferior drudge currently polishing the hardwood floor of the room. Anna is a drudge, helping out at a nursery and running around her lazy father and little brother. The image of the doting mother replaced that of the domestic drudge. Should we see them as dreary drudges, blind to the creativity of the Shakespeares and Hemingways who are taking the test? They were necessary drudges, to be kept firmly in their subordinate places. A lunchbox tells the world that one is a cautious drudge. It seemed very out of place in the normal crowd of Saturday morning grocery store drudges. And while that is clearly progress, I fear we may simply be swapping one class of exploited drudges for another, as more and more double - income couples ease their hectic schedules by engaging hired help. His special cruelty is expended on Smike, a half-witted lad left on his hands and employed as a drudge. At no point in the story, therefore, is Pip set to be a drudge or a wage slave, though he has nothing of the gentleman about him. Unlucky, you may labor under the control of a drudge. Put a few good men into corporations, and they become dull, soulless, humourless drudges given to tossing the word ‘defamatory’ around for no good reason. You have actually started to enjoy being a workaholic drudge. I felt myself very much the household drudge, and Stephen was getting all the glittering prizes. Modern girls, jaded with Charlotte, the domestic drudge, turned to the more exciting Emily for inspiration. Gradually I became the drudge and, what's more, accepted my role as a kind of second-class citizen. Tapestries, to me, had always been dim and dowdy things ravaged by time that no one but an academic drudge could like. Synonyms menial, menial worker, slave, galley slave, toiler, lackey verbdrəjdrədʒ [no object]archaic Do hard, menial, or dull work. Example sentencesExamples I am drudging at the writing table. They needed a reason for drudging through practices with no hope for a postseason. In the most memorable of all, Larkin questions a 13-year-old boy sent up from the country by his impoverished parents to drudge in a Rangoon tea shop for four dollars a month. After an unhappy childhood and some years drudging in London, Ireland liberated Trollope from asthma and gave him the impetus to start writing. Jim volunteered to do the dishes, giving Blair more time to drudge through the rest of the test papers. He was for a time obliged by poverty to drudge as a parliamentary reporter. Synonyms work hard, labour, work one's fingers to the bone, work like a trojan, work like a dog, work day and night, exert oneself, keep at it, keep one's nose to the grindstone, grind away, slave away, grub away, plough away, plod away Origin Middle English (as a noun): of unknown origin; perhaps related to drag.
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