Definitions for Drudge
drʌdʒdrudge

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hack, drudge, hackernoun

   one who works hard at boring tasks

2. drudge, peon, navvy, galley slaveverb

   a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

3. labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moilverb

   work hard

   "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drudgenoun

   A person who works in a low servile job.

2. drudgenoun

   Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

3. drudgeverb

   to labour in (or as in) a low servile job

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drudgenoun

   One employed in mean labour; a slave; one doomed to servile occupation.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   To conclude, this drudge of the devil, this diviner, laid claim to me. William Shakespeare, Comedy of Errours.

   He sits above, and laughs the while
   At thee, ordain’d his drudge, to execute
   Whate’er his wrath shall bid. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.

   Art thou our slave,
   Our captive, at the publick mill our drudge,
   And dar’st thou, at our sending and command,
   Dispute thy coming. John Milton, Agonistes, l. 392.

   He is content to be their drudge,
   And on their errands gladly trudge. Hudibras, p. iii. cant. 1.

   The hard master makes men serve him for nought, who rewards his drudges and slaves with nothing but shame and sorrow, and misery. John Tillotson, Sermon 4.

2. To DRUDGEverb

   To labour in mean offices; to toil without honour or dignity; to work hard; to slave.

   Etymology: dreccan, to vex, Saxon; draghen, to carry, Dutch.

   And to crack’d fiddle, and hoarse tabour,
   In merriment, did drudge and labour. Hudibras, p. i.

   The poor sleep little: we must learn to watch
   Our labours late, and early every morning,
   Mid’st Winter frosts; then clad and fed with sparing,
   Rise to our toils, and drudge away the day. Thomas Otway.

   Advantages obtained by industry directed by philosophy, can never be expected from drudging ignorance. Joseph Glanvill, Sceps.

   Soon he came to court,
   Proffering for hire his service at the gate,
   To drudge, draw water, and to run or wait. John Dryden, Fables.

   I made no such bargain with you, to live always drudging. John Dryden, Æn. Dedicat.

   What is an age, in dull renown drudg’d o’er!
   One little single hour of love is more. George Granville.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drudge

   A drudge is a person who is tasked with carrying out menial, routine, and tiresome work, often over a long period of time. This term can also refer to the actual work or task that is tedious, dull, and repetitious.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drudgeverb

   to perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue

2. Drudgeverb

   to consume laboriously; -- with away

3. Drudgenoun

   one who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant

4. Etymology: [OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t., but fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. drugaire a slave or drudge.]

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1. Drudge

   Drudge is a television series on Fox News Channel hosted by Matt Drudge. Drudge left the show in 1999 after network executives refused to let him show a picture of 21-week old fetus.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Drudge

   druj, v.i. to work hard: to do very mean work.—n. one who works hard: a slave: a menial servant.—ns. Drudg′er; Drudg′ery, Drudg′ism, the work of a drudge: uninteresting toil: hard or humble labour.—adv. Drudg′ingly. [Ety. unknown. Some suggest Celt., as in Ir. drugaire, a drudge.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. drudge

   A name truly applied to a cabin-boy.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DRUDGE

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Drudge is ranked #53204 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Drudge surname appeared 389 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Drudge.
   
   97.9% or 381 total occurrences were White.
   1.5% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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How to pronounce Drudge?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Drudge in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Drudge in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Drudge in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Drudge in a Sentence

1. Robertson Davies:

   A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

2. Alex Conant:

   For people to wake up and see the banner of Drudge with a false report is not helpful.

3. Gore Vidal:

   The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

4. Senator Cruz:

   One volunteer sent out, and by the way, they forwarded a CNN story, that was the lead story on Drudge, is what the volunteer did. Now we asked them to take it down anyway.

5. Robertson Davies:

   He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Drudge
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Drudge
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Drudge
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Drudge
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Drudge
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Drudge
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Drudge
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
10. ^ Usage in printed sources
    https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Drudge