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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drudge \Drudge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drudged}; p. pr & vb n. {Drudging}.] [OE. druggen; prob not akin to E. drag, v. t., but fr Celtic; cf Ir drugaire a slave or drudge.] To perform menial work to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue. He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. --Macaulay. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}]
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