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drudge

/dɹʌd͡ʒ/

drudge noun: a person who works in a low servile job.

Noun

drudge (plural drudges)

  1. (also, attributive) A person who works in a low servile job.
    • drudge work
    Synonyms:
    peon, minion
  2. (derogatory) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

Verb

drudge (third-person singular simple present drudges, present participle drudging, simple past and past participle drudged)

  1. (intransitive) To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
    • Rise to our Toils and drudge away the day.1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd
    • He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged.1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...

drudge meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

drudge in Tamil

உழை, குற்றேவல்

drudge in Urdu

جتنا, محنت کرنا, مشقت کرنا

drudge in Malayalam

വിടുപണി ചെയ്യുന്നവൻ, അടിമ, വാല്യക്കാരൻ

Synonyms of drudge

Forms of drudge

Noun
pluraldrudges
Verb
third-person singular presentdrudges
present participledrudging
past participledrudged
pastdrudged

Plural of drudge: drudges

Origin of drudge

From Middle English druggen, perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).

Words formed from drudge

Words that rhyme with drudge

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Questions about drudge

What does drudge mean?
Drudge means a person who works in a low servile job.
What is drudge in Tamil?
Drudge in Tamil is உழை, குற்றேவல். See Drudge meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is drudge?
Drudge can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce drudge?
Drudge is pronounced /dɹʌd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of drudge?
The plural of drudge is drudges.

Words near drudge in the dictionary

  1. Drucker
  2. Druckerian
  3. Druckerman
  4. Druckermans
  5. Druckers
  6. drudge
  7. drudged
  8. drudger
  9. drudgerie
  10. drudgeries
  11. drudgerous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drudge (page history and authors); drudge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); drudge (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); drudge (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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