Drudgery

Definition: Drudgery

Drudgery

Noun

1. Hard monotonous routine work.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "drudgery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Drudgery

Activity

Industry, assiduity; assiduousness; Adjective: sedulity; laboriousness; drudgery; (labor); painstaking, diligence; perseverance; a; indefatigation; habits of business.

Exertion

Labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink, drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering; limae labor; industry, industriousness, operoseness, operosity.

Crosswords: Drudgery

Books

• Drudgery Divine: On the Comparison of Early Christianities and the Religions of Late Antiquity (Chicago Studies Int the History of Judaism) (reference)

• Inspiration and drudgery : notes on literature and domestic labour in the nineteenth century (reference)

• The Family That Works Together...: Turning Family Chores from Drudgery to Fun (Developing Capable People Series) (reference)

• Working Your Way into Heaven: How to Make Work, Stress, and Drudgery a Means to Your Sanctity (reference)

  (more book examples)

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I confess, we find among the Jews, as well as other nations, that men did sell themselves; but, it is plain, this was only to drudgery, not to slavery: for, it is evident, the person sold was not under an absolute, arbitrary, despotical power: for the master could not have power to kill him, at any time, whom, at a certain time, he was obliged to let go free out of his service; and the master of such a servant was so far from having an arbitrary power over his life, that he could not, at pleasure, so much as maim him, but the loss of an eye, or tooth, set him free, Exod. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Trust me, do not undertake this dreadful drudgery of being an idler.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "drudgery": household drudgery. Additional references.

Albanian

punë e rëndë (elbow grease, moil, slavery, slog, swot, toil, travail), angari (corvee, hackwork). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كدح (drudge, elbow grease, fag, grub, hard work, labor, labour, moil, plod, proletarianize, slave, slavery, slog, sweat, sweat blood, swot, toil, travail, work hard), ‏كد (diligence, exert oneself, exhaust, fatigue, industry, overwork, sedulity, toil, work hard), ‏عمل حقير, ‏عمل شاق (donkey work, overwork, task). (various references)

Bulgarian 

робски труд, робия (servitude, slavery), черна работа (hackwork), неблагодарна работа (donkey work, hackwork, treadmill). (various references)

Chinese 

苦工. (various references)

Czech

dřina (elbow grease, fag, grind, grindery, labor, labour, moil, slog, stinker, sweat, toil), otroèina (slavery), nádenièina, lopota (toil). (various references)

Dutch

gezwoeg. (various references)

Finnish

raadanta (toiling). (various references)

French

travail pénible et ingrat, travail fastidieux, grosse besogne, corvée. (various references)

German

schinderei (knacker's yard, oppression, rough going, slavery, slog, struggle). (various references)

Greek 

ελεεινή εργασία. (various references)

Hebrew 

עבו�"�" שחור�" (unskilled labour). (various references)

Hungarian

robotolás (plodding), rabszolgamunka (slavery), lélekölő munka (grind, slavery). (various references)

Manx

tooilleil (donkey-work, drudge, fatigue, laboriousness, labour, tire, tiresomeness, toil, travail, weary; wearying; elbow grease), dreihys (wretchedness), doccarys (arduousness, hardship, irksomeness, laboriousness, labour). (various references)

Pig Latin

udgerydray

Portuguese

labuta (toil), escravidão (bondage, captivity, enslavement, servitude, slavery, thraldom, thrall). (various references)

Romanian

trudã (elbow grease, grub, labor, labour, moil, suffering, sufferings, sweat, tiredness, toil, trouble, work), robotã (corvee), muncã neplãcutã (drudge), hamalâc, corvoadã (dirty work, drudge, fag, fatigue duty, plod, swelter). (various references)

Russian 

тяжелая работа (corvee, donkey work, elbow grease, grind, moil, plod, slog, swot, tough job). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

težak posao (hackwork), naporan (grueling, gruelling, heavy, labored, laboured, strenuous, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying). (various references)

Spanish

trabajo penoso (fag). (various references)

Swedish

slit (fag, grind, scramble, slog, toil, wear and tear), slavgöra. (various references)

Thai

งานหนัก (elbow-grease, task). (various references)

Turkish

angarya (angary, corvee, fag, fatigue, fatigue duty, forced labor, slavery, sweat, task), ağır iş (drudge, gruelling, hard work, moil, plodding, slavery, taskwork). (various references)

Ukrainian

тяжка, нудна робота (drudge). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lao dịch, kiếp trâu ngựa, kiếp nô lệ, công việc vất vả cực nhọc. (various references)

Misspellings

"Drudgery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dougary, drudery, drumgor. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: drudger.

-2 letters: drudge, rudder.

-3 letters: derry, dryer, dured, gurry, guyed, gyred, redry, ruddy, ruder, udder, urged, urger.

-4 letters: dreg, drug, dude, dure, durr, dyed, dyer, eddy, edgy, grey, grue, gude, gyre, redd, rudd, rude, rued, ruer, urge.

-5 letters: dey, dry, dud, due, dug, dye, erg, err, ged, gey, guy, red, reg, rue, rug, rye, urd.