drudge Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun one who works hard at boring tasks
    hacker; hack.
  2. noun a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
    galley slave; peon; navvy.
  3. verb work hard
    moil; travail; dig; grind; labour; toil; labor; fag.
    • She was digging away at her math homework
    • Lexicographers drudge all day long

WordNet

Drudge intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t., but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire a slave or drudge.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Drudged ; present participle & verbal noun Drudging
Definitions
  1. 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.
Drudge transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To consume laboriously; -- with away.
    Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. Otway.
Drudge noun
Definitions
  1. One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant. Milton.

Webster 1913