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drudging
(encz) | drudging,namáhavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
drudging
(encz) | drudging,vysilující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Drudging
(gcide) | Drudge \Drudge\ (dr[u^]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drudged
(dr[u^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Drudging.] [OE. druggen; prob
not akin to E. drag, v. t., but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire
a slave or drudge.]
To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant
offices with toil and fatigue.
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He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers
for whom he drudged. --Macaulay.
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drudging
(wn) | drudging
adj 1: doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants";
"the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton";
"toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn:
drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling] |
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drudging
(encz) | drudging,namáhavý adj: Zdeněk Broždrudging,vysilující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
drudging box
(gcide) | Dredger \Dredg"er\, n. (Cookery)
A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as
on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box,
drudger, and drudging box.
[1913 Webster]Drudging box \Drudg"ing box`\
See Dredging box.
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Drudging box
(gcide) | Dredger \Dredg"er\, n. (Cookery)
A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as
on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box,
drudger, and drudging box.
[1913 Webster]Drudging box \Drudg"ing box`\
See Dredging box.
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Drudgingly
(gcide) | Drudgingly \Drudg"ing*ly\, adv.
In a drudging manner; laboriously.
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drudging
(wn) | drudging
adj 1: doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants";
"the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton";
"toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn:
drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling] |
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