Definitions
hard monotonous routine work
Word origin
From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of’ forming nouns).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“I may not dure this female drudgerie, / To ſea Æneas, finde out Italy.”
“Here he met with a Drudgerie almoſt invincible, and if we add the Task to the Time, it is enough to make a Man old.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Dull hard work”8 letters
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