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drudge

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1. drudge - Noun

2. drudge - Verb

Meaning

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

To consume laboriously; -- with away.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Gore Vidal

Lexicographer A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. Samuel Johnson

When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge. George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress. Harriet Ann Jacobs

The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers; and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more. Charles Perrault

The big 3 networks don't like the fact that there's a Rush Limbaugh out there, they don't like the fact that there's a Fox News, they don't like the fact that there's a Matt Drudge. They liked it when it was nice, when it was just the three of them. Well, it ain't that way anymore. Bernard Goldberg

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