drudge

drudge
    n 1: one who works hard at boring tasks [syn: {hack}, {drudge},
         {hacker}]
    2: a laborer who is obliged to do menial work [syn: {drudge},
       {peon}, {navvy}, {galley slave}]
    v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
         "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: {labor},
         {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge},
         {dig}, {moil}]
    

Drudge \Drudge\ (dr[u^]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drudged}
   (dr[u^]jd); 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.
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         He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers
         for whom he drudged.                     --Macaulay.
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Drudge \Drudge\, v. t.
   To consume laboriously; -- with away.
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         Rise to our toils and drudge away the day. --Otway.
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Drudge \Drudge\, n.
   One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a
   menial servant. --Milton.
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77 Moby Thesaurus words for "drudge":
      administer to, attend, attend on, be busy, beast of burden,
      care for, chore, dance attendance upon, dig, do for, do service to,
      domestic, domestic servant, donkeywork, dray horse, drudgery, fag,
      galley slave, greasy grind, grind, grub, grubber, hack, hammer,
      hammer away, help, hireling, keep doggedly at, labor, lackey,
      look after, maid, menial, mercenary, minister to, moil, muck,
      pander to, peg, peg away, peon, plod, plodder, plow, plug,
      plug along, plug at, plug away, plugging, pound, pound away,
      scullion, servant, serve, servitor, slave, slavery, slavey, slog,
      slog away, slogger, swot, take care of, tend, toil, toiler,
      travail, turnspit, upon, valet, wade through, wait, wait on, work,
      work away, work for, workhorse