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Definition: Drudging |
DrudgingAdjective1. Doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "drudging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: DrudgingSynonyms: laboring (adj), labouring (adj), toiling (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Drudging |
| English words defined with "drudging": Drudgingly. (references) |
Expression using "drudging": drudging box. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "drudging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Arabic | كادح (industrious, labor, laborer, laborious, labour, labourer, plodder, slogger). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | schuftend (plodding, slaving, toiling), abrackernd (fagging). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | udgingdray zahmetli (demanding, exacting, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, incommodious, inconvenient, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, lucubratory, onerous, painful, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, troublous, trying, uphill, with an effort), yorucu (back breaking, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, irksome, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, languorous, painful, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, with an effort), ağır (arduous, back breaking, badly, bovine, burdensome, contemptuous, cumbersome, cumbrous, deep, deliberate, dignified, dull, fabian, foul, grave, grievous, hard, harsh, heavily, heavy, hefty, indigestible, languid, lazy, lumbering, massive, measured, muzzy, not fast, onerous, oppressive, plodding, ponderous, repressive, rich, scorching, scornful, serious, serious minded, seriously, severe, severely, sharp, slack, slashing, slow, slow moving, slowly, sluggish, smashing, stodgy, strenuous, strong, swingeing, toilful, toilsome, unwholesome, unwieldy, weighty). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "drudging": drudgingly. (additional references) | |
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"Drudging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: druging. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-g-g-i-n-r-u" | |
-2 letters: duding, during, ungird, urging. | |
-3 letters: druid, grind, ruing, undid, unrig. | |
-4 letters: ding, drug, dung, durn, gird, girn, grid, grig, grin, guid, nurd, rind, ring, rudd, ruin, rung. | |
-5 letters: did, dig, din, dud, dug, dui, dun, gid, gig, gin, gnu, gun, rid, rig, rin, rug, run, urd, urn. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-g-g-i-n-r-u" | |
+2 letters: drudgingly. | |
+4 letters: undergirding. | |
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