drudge

1 one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, hacker]

2 a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: peon, navvy, galley slave] v : work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, dig, moil]

English

Pronunciation

• /dɹʌdʒ/, /drVdZ/

  Rhymes: -ʌdʒ

Noun

1. a person who works in a low servile job
2. a derogoratory term for someone who works for (and maybe taken advantage by) someone else.

Derived terms

• drudgery

Verb

1. to labour in or as in a low servile job
2. a derogoratory term for working

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 series), Matt Drudge's former TV series
• A race in the MMORPGs Asheron's Call and Asheron's Call 2, playable in the latter.

See also

• Dredge (disambiguation)

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