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drudge

/dɹʌd͡ʒ/ noun

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noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about drudge at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. One who works hard at boring tasks.
  2. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.

verb

  1. Work hard.
    She was digging away at her math homework

Origin

From Middle English druggen, perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).

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