Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who does tedious, menial, or unpleasant work.
- intransitive verb To do tedious, unpleasant, or menial work.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who toils, especially at servile or mechanical labor; one who labors hard in servile or uninteresting employments; a spiritless toiler.
- noun A large rake.
- noun A dredge.
- To work hard, especially at servile, mechanical, or uninteresting work; labor in tedious, dragging tasks; labor with toil and fatigue, and without interest.
- To harrow.
- noun Whisky in the raw state, as used in the manufacture of alcohol.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To consume laboriously; -- with
away . - intransitive verb To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
- noun One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who works in a low
servile job. - noun pejorative Someone who works for (and may be
taken advantage of by ) someone else. - verb to
labour in (or as in) a lowservile job
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who works hard at boring tasks
- verb work hard
- noun a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Hey but the lying website drudge is trying to say that one of Obama's supporters bit the finger off one of the good old boys, paid and bought by the republicans and the health and drug companies.
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They were first class, and they gave it up to work in drudge jobs that took them away from their homes and families where they belonged and where their mothers and grandmothers were doing quite well before feminists/marxists spread the lies to convince them they were not free.
The Better Part 2008
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Granted, pawing through endless filthy stacks of cheesy Disney tie-ins and bios of teeny bopper stars from ten years ago can get a little depressing, but the drudge is worth it when coming across that rare gem.
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Granted, pawing through endless filthy stacks of cheesy Disney tie-ins and bios of teeny bopper stars from ten years ago can get a little depressing, but the drudge is worth it when coming across that rare gem.
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Bobbytoo says: drudge is not worth the time I am taking to write this response
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Cilizza dreams of being drudge, because of the so-called drudge influence.
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The drudge was the best thing that ever happened to my campaign.
Deception Point Dan Brown 2001
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Besides that, this thing is being ran on the drudge which is like foxnews of the internet.
NRCC targets Obama for saying Cambridge cop 'acted stupidly' 2009
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I-- it's really hard to picture her out there on the campaign trail doing all the kind of drudge work that goes with politics -- calling up the donors, you know, touring the little hamlets.
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His local knowledge, active disposition, and subservient industry, render him an useful kind of drudge to any prevailing party, and, since the overthrow of the Brissotines, he has been entrusted with the government of this and some of the neighbouring departments.
madmouth commented on the word drudge
The Drudge expends her life in mopping
In emptying and filling pails
She will do so, never stopping,
Until her strength entirely fails
-Edward Gorey
April 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word drudge
Yet if some antiquated lady say,
The last age is not copied in his play;
Heaven help the man who for that face must drudge,
Which only has the wrinkles of a judge.
- John Dryden, 'All for Love'.
September 20, 2009