drudging : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drudging	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for drudging
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drudging adj doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps" Synonym(s): drudging, laboring, labouring, toiling
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drudge \Drudge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drudged}; 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. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. --Macaulay.