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drudgeries

drudgeries is the plural of drudgery.

Meaning of drudgery

Noun

drudgery (countable and uncountable, plural drudgeries)

  1. Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
    • What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / What drudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene.1878, Thomas Tusser, “A Comparison betweene Champion Countrie and Seuerall”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […]...
    Synonyms:
    chore, dogsbody work, fatigue, swink, toil, chores, drudgework, razzmatazz, scut, scutwork

Questions about drudgeries

What is drudgeries the plural of?
Drudgeries is the plural of drudgery.

Words near drudgeries in the dictionary

  1. Druckers
  2. drudge
  3. drudged
  4. drudger
  5. drudgerie
  6. drudgeries
  7. drudgerous
  8. drudgers
  9. drudgery
  10. drudgery-ridden
  11. drudges

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