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Drudge

/dɹʌdʒ/

A person who works in a low servile job.

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📖 Definitions of "Drudge"

noun

1
A person who works in a low servile job.
2
Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

verb

1
To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

🔄 Synonyms of "Drudge"

13 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
travailnoun	(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
hacknoun	(transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
grindverb	(transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
digverb	(transitive, intransitive) To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way.
peonnoun	A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
hackernoun	(computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.
labornoun	(Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
fagnoun	(US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.
navvynoun	an unskilled laborer
galley slavenoun	(historical, nautical) A slave who rows in a galley (type of ship).
labournoun	An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
moilnoun	To toil, to work hard.
toilnoun	Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Drudge"

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Word	Definition
peonnoun	A lowly person; a peasant or serf; a labourer who is obliged to do menial work.
labornoun	(Australian politics, informal) The Australian Labor Party.
labournoun	An effort expended on a particular task; toil, work.
travailnoun	(literary) Arduous or painful exertion; excessive labor, suffering, hardship.
toilnoun	Labour, work, especially of a grueling nature.
moilnoun	Hard work.
hacknoun	A tool for chopping.
grindnoun	The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
hackernoun	(computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.
navvynoun	an unskilled laborer
dignoun	An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place.
galley slavenoun	(historical, nautical) A slave who rows in a galley (type of ship).
plodnoun	A slow or labored walk or other motion or activity.
fagnoun	(US, Canada, vulgar, usually offensive, sometimes endearing) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.
grubnoun	(uncountable, slang) Food.
drugnoun	(pharmacology) A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose.
afterguardnoun	(sailing) The members of a yacht's crew who attend to the aft sails
schleppernoun	A servant who carries things; a porter.
servantnoun	One who is hired to perform regular household or other duties, and receives compensation. As opposed to a slave.
shitpickernoun	(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A person who does lowly, menial work.