drudge : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drudge	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for drudge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drudge n one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: hack, drudge, hacker] a laborer who is obliged to do menial work Synonym(s): drudge, peon, navvy, galley slave v work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" Synonym(s): labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drudge \Drudge\, v. t. To consume laboriously; -- with away. Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. --Otway.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Drudge \Drudge\, n. One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. --Milton.