toil, slave, labor, work hard
Search Dictionary
Drudging Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Drudge
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. Aboutof Drudge
drudging
adj : doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: laboring, labouring, toiling]
similar words(1)
drudging box
Adjective
1. doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling coal miners in the black deeps"
(synonym) laboring, labouring, toiling
(similar) busy
Noun
1. one who works hard at boring tasks
(synonym) hack, hacker
(hypernym) unskilled person
(hyponym) plodder, slogger
(derivation) labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, dig, moil
2. a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
(synonym) peon, navvy, galley slave
(hypernym) laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
(derivation) labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, dig, moil
Verb
1. work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
(synonym) labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, dig, moil
(hypernym) work, do work
(derivation) peon, navvy, galley slave
