drudge

Meaning

Noun

1. A person who works in a low servile job.
2. Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

Verb

To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

Synonyms

labor

toil

slave

fag

labour

grind

grub

travail

moil

work

peon

dig

fagger

navvy

galley slave

endure

suffer

hack

hacker

cram-study

be industrious

plodder

farmer

🧑‍🌾

farmhand

graft

hard labor

hard work

plod

delve

scrub

scullion

slogger

slut

subsist

sweat

😓

tolerate

Trojan

undergo

work hard

be diligent

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹʌd͡ʒ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: druggen

Cognate with Old English: drēogan

In summary

From Middle English druggen, which is possibly related to Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).