Drudging

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drudge \Drudge\ (dr[u^]j), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drudged}
     (dr[u^]jd); 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.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers
           for whom he drudged.                     --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]