Word familynoundrudgerdrudgeryverbdrudgeadverbdrudgingly
drudge /drʌdʒ/ noun [countableC]
WORK HARDsomeone who does hard boring work 做苦工者,干乏味工作的人
—drudge verb [intransitiveI]
Examples from the Corpus
drudge• The work I was given was the same, day after day; I felt like a drudge.• Surely one of thee needs a drudge?• Before the marriage Maggie had been little more than a drudge round the house.• One of the women said that since having four children, she felt she'd been reduced to a household drudge.• Some drudge in the post office wouldn't give me any tape for my package.• He found a job as a sheet-metal worker, drudge and grime and long hours and low pay.