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Noun: drudge  drúj
  1. One who works hard at boring tasks
    "The office drudge spent hours inputting data into the system";
    - hack, hacker [informal]
     
  2. A labourer who is obliged to do menial work
    "The drudge toiled in the fields from dawn to dusk";
    - peon [N. Amer], navvy [Brit, informal], galley slave [informal]
Verb: drudge  drúj
  1. Work hard
    "Lexicographers drudge all day long";
    - labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], toil, fag [informal], travail [literary], grind [informal], dig [US, informal], moil [N. Amer]

Derived forms: drudging, drudges, drudged

Type of: jack, laborer [US], labourer [Brit, Cdn], manual laborer [US], manual labourer [Brit, Cdn], unskilled person, work

Encyclopedia: Drudge