Associations to the word «Drudge»

Wiktionary

DRUDGE, noun. A person who works in a low servile job.
DRUDGE, noun. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
DRUDGE, verb. To labour in (or as in) a low servile job

Dictionary definition

DRUDGE, noun. One who works hard at boring tasks.
DRUDGE, noun. A laborer who is obliged to do menial work.
DRUDGE, verb. Work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats