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The definition of a drudge is a person who is tasked with boring, dull, repetitive or meaningless work.

(noun)

A low-level employee who just makes copies and fetches everyone coffee is an example of a drudge.

Drudge is defined as to do boring, meaningless, repetitive or dull work.

(verb)

To clean the house all day and do thankless menial tasks is an example of drudge.

See drudge in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a person who does hard, menial, or tedious work

Origin: ME druggen, prob. < OE dreogan: see dree

intransitive verb drudged, drudging

to do such work

See drudge in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A person who does tedious, menial, or unpleasant work.

intransitive verb drudged drudged, drudg·ing, drudg·es

To do tedious, unpleasant, or menial work.

Origin:

Origin: From Middle English druggen, to labor

Origin: ; akin to Old English drēogan, to work, suffer

Related Forms:

drudgˈer noun

drudgˈing·ly adverb

noun & v.
Chesapeake Bay

Variant of dredge¹.

Regional Note: “Out here on the Chesapeake, they call it ‘drudging for arsters,’” says Charles Kuralt in his book On the Road with Charles Kuralt. The Standard English verb dredge is pronounced with a centralized vowel by Chesapeake Bay oyster fishermen, yielding drudge. Drudge in turn has been picked up by city dwellers on the Delmarva Peninsula; a survey of some young people from Baltimore revealed that they did not even know that there was a Standard English verb dredge. Kuralt gives the regional pronunciation a whimsical folk etymology with the standard meaning of drudge, “to do tedious or unpleasant work,” observing, “Whatever you do for a living, it's not as hard as ‘drudging for arsters.’”

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