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- [druhj]
- /drʌdʒ/
- /drʌdʒ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [druhj]
- /drʌdʒ/
Definitions of drudge word
- noun drudge a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work. 1
- noun drudge a person who works in a routine, unimaginative way. 1
- verb without object drudge to perform menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work. 1
- noun drudge Do such work. 1
- noun drudge sb who does menial work 1
- countable noun drudge If you describe someone as a drudge, you mean they have to work hard at a job which is not very important or interesting. 0
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Origin of drudge
First appearance:
before 1485 One of the 25% oldest English words
1485-95; compare OE man's name Drycghelm helmet maker, equivalent to drycg (akin to drēogan to work) + helm helm2
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Parts of speech for Drudge
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
drudge popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 77% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
drudge usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for drudge
noun drudge
- laborer — a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
- toiler — hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
- servant — a person employed by another, especially to perform domestic duties.
- worker — a person or thing that works.
- grind — to wear, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; whet: to grind a lens.
verb drudge
- plow — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- pound — Archaic. to shut up in or as in a pound; impound; imprison.
- travail — painfully difficult or burdensome work; toil.
- perform — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- dig — to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
Antonyms for drudge
noun drudge
- idler — the state or quality of being idle.
- laze — to idle or lounge lazily (often followed by around): I was too tired to do anything but laze around this weekend.
- drone — Music. a continuous low tone produced by the bass pipes or bass strings of musical instruments. the pipes (especially of the bagpipe) or strings producing this tone. a bagpipe equipped with such pipes.
verb drudge
- avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- dodge — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- hesitate — to be reluctant or wait to act because of fear, indecision, or disinclination: She hesitated to take the job.
- fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- idle — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
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