Drudgery

Quick meaning: Drudgery is a noun meaning Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.

Meaning

Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.

Example Sentences

I may not dure this female drudgerie, / To ſea Æneas, finde out Italy.

Here he met with a Drudgerie almoſt invincible, and if we add the Task to the Time, it is enough to make a Man old.

In the coarſe Drudgeries, and Sinks of Senſe, / Your Souls have quite worn out the Make of Heav'n, / By Vice new-caſt, and Creatures of your own: […]

What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / What drudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene.

Word Forms

• drudgeries
• drudgerie

Synonyms for drudgery

Depending on context, synonyms include chores, fatigue, razzmatazz, scut, scutwork, swink.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plodding, grind, donkeywork, chore, duty, travail.

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