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drudge
(encz) | drudge,dříč n: Zdeněk Brož |
Drudge
(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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Drudge
(gcide) | Drudge \Drudge\, v. t.
To consume laboriously; -- with away.
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Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. --Otway.
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Drudge
(gcide) | Drudge \Drudge\, n.
One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a
menial servant. --Milton.
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drudge
(wn) | drudge
n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge,
hacker]
2: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: drudge,
peon, navvy, galley slave]
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor,
labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge,
dig, moil] |
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drudgery
(encz) | drudgery,dřina n: Zdeněk Brož |
Drudge
(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.
[1913 Webster]Drudge \Drudge\, v. t.
To consume laboriously; -- with away.
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Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. --Otway.
[1913 Webster]Drudge \Drudge\, n.
One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a
menial servant. --Milton.
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Drudged
(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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drudger
(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]Drudger \Drudg"er\ (dr[u^]j"[~e]r), n.
1. One who drudges; a drudge.
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2. A dredging box.
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Drudger
(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]Drudger \Drudg"er\ (dr[u^]j"[~e]r), n.
1. One who drudges; a drudge.
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2. A dredging box.
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Drudgery
(gcide) | Drudgery \Drudg"er*y\ (dr[u^]j"[~e]r*[y^]), n.
The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor;
ignoble or slavish toil.
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The drudgery of penning definitions. --Macaulay.
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Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery
and with out sorrow. --Locke.
Syn: See Toll.
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Endrudge
(gcide) | Endrudge \En*drudge"\, v. t. [Pref. en- + drudge.]
To make a drudge or slave of. [Obs.] --Bp. Hall.
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drudgery
(wn) | drudgery
n 1: hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding,
grind, donkeywork] |
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