Drudge
[drʌdʒ]
Definition
(v. i.) To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
(v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.
(n.) One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.
Typist: Lucas
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Slave, toil, plod, work hard.
n. Slave, menial, scullion, hack, fag, hard-worker.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Slave, labor, plod
ANT:Bask, luxuriate, hit_off, play, dally
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Definition
v.i. to work hard: to do very mean work.—n. one who works hard: a slave: a menial servant.—ns. Drudg′er; Drudg′ery Drudg′ism the work of a drudge: uninteresting toil: hard or humble labour.—adv. Drudg′ingly.
Typist: Owen
Examples
- She was a poor, empty-headed, spiritless woman--what you call a born drudge--and I was now and then not averse to plaguing her by taking Anne away. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A mere drudge? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Emma guessed him to be the drudge of some attorney, and too stupid to rise. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I am a disappointed drudge, sir. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I was only going to say that surely you wouldn't have me be a mere drudge all my life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Ephraim is an heartless dove--Issachar an over-laboured drudge, which stoops between two burdens. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I'm a poor, miserable, forlorn drudge; I shall only drag you down with me, that's all. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The chief solicitude of the rich and of the ruler in the old civilization had been to keep up a supply of drudges. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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