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drugery

drugery is the obsolete form 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

Forms of drugery

pluraldrugeries

Questions about drugery

What is drugery the obsolete form of?
Drugery is the obsolete form of drudgery.

Words near drugery in the dictionary

  1. drugability
  2. drugable
  3. drugbuster
  4. drugbusters
  5. drugeries
  6. drugery
  7. drugeteria
  8. drugeterias
  9. drugfree
  10. drugg
  11. druggabilities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drugery (page history and authors); drudgery (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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