drudge

  • 11Drudge — A drudge is a person who does tedious, menial, or unpleasant work; it can also refer to the work itself, known as drudgery. Drudge can also refer to: Matt Drudge, an American Internet journalist. Drudge Report, Matt Drudge s website. Drudge (TV… …

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  • 12drudge —    Used of someone who slaves away at uninteresting and unrewarding work, a hack. Dr Johnson famously defined ‘lexicographer’ in his Dictionary as ‘a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and… …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 13drudge — UK [drʌdʒ] / US noun [countable] Word forms drudge : singular drudge plural drudges someone who has to do a lot of boring and unpleasant work …

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  • 14drudge — [15] No one is quite sure where drudge comes from. It is first recorded, as a noun, towards the end of the 15th century, and the verb followed about fifty years later. One possible source may be the Middle English verb drugge ‘pull laboriously’,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 15drudge — [[t]drʌ̱ʤ[/t]] drudges N COUNT If you describe someone as a drudge, you mean they have to work hard at a job which is not very important or interesting …

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  • 16drudge — noun (C) someone who does hard boring work drudge verb (I) …

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  • 17drudge — 1. noun a household drudge Syn: menial worker, slave, lackey, servant, laborer, worker, cog; informal gofer, runner, bottle washer, serf 2. verb, archaic he drudged in the fields See …

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  • 18drudge —   Pa u, pa aua, kauā pa aua. See saying, anus.    ♦ To treat as a drudge, ho opa u, ho opa aua …

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  • 19drudge — [15] No one is quite sure where drudge comes from. It is first recorded, as a noun, towards the end of the 15th century, and the verb followed about fifty years later. One possible source may be the Middle English verb drugge ‘pull laboriously’,… …

    Word origins

  • 20Drudge Report — Type Private Founded 1997[1] Founder …

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