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drudgery

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English

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WOTD – 17 November 2020

Etymology

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Fromdrudge(“person who works in a low servile job”) +‎-ery(suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of’ formingnouns).^[1]

Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation, General American)IPA^(key): /ˈdɹʌd͡ʒəɹi/
Audio(Received Pronunciation): (file)
Hyphenation:drudg‧e‧ry

Noun

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drudgery (countable anduncountable,pluraldrudgeries)

Exhausting,menial, andtediouswork.
Synonyms:chore,dogsbody work,(military)fatigue,(archaic)swink,toil;see alsoThesaurus:drudgery
- 1878,Thomas Tusser, “A Comparison betweene ChampionCountrie and Seuerall”, inFive Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for theEnglish Dialect Society byTrübner & Co., […],→OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors,Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for theEnglish Dialect Society byTrübner & Co., […],1878,→OCLC, stanza 4,page141:
  What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / Whatdrudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene.
- 1594,Christopher Marlowe,Thomas Nash[e],The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […],→OCLC, Act IV,signature E3, recto:
  I may not dure this femaledrudgerie, / To ſeaÆneas, finde outItaly.
- c.1596–1599 (date written),William Shakespeare,The Second Part of Henrie the Fourth, […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] forAndrew Wise, andWilliam Aspley, published1600,→OCLC,[Act III, scene ii]:
  I was prickt wel enough before, and you could haue let me alone, my old dame will be vndone now for one to doe her husbandrie, and herdrudgery, you need not to haue prickt me, there are other men fitter to go out then I.
- 1652, “A Short Advertisement to the Reader”, in Eugenius Philalethes [i.e.,Thomas Vaughan], transl.,The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of the R: C: Commonly, of the Rosie Cross. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] forGiles Calvert, […],→OCLC,page58:
  Here he met with aDrudgerie almoſtinvincible, and if we add theTask to theTime, it is enough to make aMan old.
- 1744, [Edward Young], “Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of The Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality.”, inThe Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] G. Hawkins, […],→OCLC,page60:
  In the coarſeDrudgeries, and Sinks ofSenſe, / Your Souls have quite worn out the Make of Heav'n, / By Vice new-caſt, and Creatures of your own:[…]
- 1748, [David Hume], “Essay V. Sceptical Solution of These Doubts.”, inPhilosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC, part I,pages69–70:
  While we ſtudy with Attention the Vanity of human Life, and turn all our Thoughts on the empty and tranſitory Nature of Riches and Honours, we are, perhaps, all the while flattering our natural Indolence, which, hating the Buſtle of the World, andDrudgery of Buſineſs, ſeeks a Pretext of Reaſon, to give itſelf a full and uncontroul'd Indulgence.
- 1842 December –1844 July,Charles Dickens, “Martin Enlarges His Circle of Acquaintance; […]”, inThe Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London:Chapman and Hall, […], published1844,→OCLC,page222:
  […] Mr. Bevan informed him that domesticdrudgery was far beneath the exalted range of these Philosophers, and that the chances were a hundred to one that neither of the three could perform the easiest woman's work for herself, or make the simplest article of dress for any of her children.
- 1889,H[enry] Clay Trumbull, “Making Drudgery Divine”, inDuty-knowing and Duty-doing, Philadelphia, Pa.: John D. Wattles,→OCLC,page133:
  A large part of duty-doing isdrudgery. There isdrudgery in every department of life's work–drudgery that is indispensable to success in that work.[…] But there is such a thing as ennoblingdrudgery, as making and counting it an essential part of that which is noble and–in a sense–divine.
- 1972,Bruce Catton, “Interlude with Music”, inWaiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood (Great Lakes Books), Detroit, Mich.:Wayne State University Press, published1987,→ISBN,pages151–152:
  I felt that I was really growing up—my thirteenth birthday lay just ahead—and classroom work suddenly took on a new aspect. It was no longer just one of the unavoidabledrudgeries of boyhood: it was a time of preparation, and I felt obliged to consider what i was going to do with my life.
- 1992,Amina Wadud, “Conclusion”, inQur’an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman’s Perspective, New York N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire:Oxford University Press, published1999,→ISBN,page104:
  Thus, mutually decided matters of contribution can be arranged within families to affect the ultimate benefits in family and society. Not alldrudgery should be arbitrarily attributed to women, nor all social, political, and economic recognition be attributed to men.
- 2007, Kalyan Annamalai, Ishwar K. Puri, “Introduction and Review of Thermodynamics”, inCombustion Science and Engineering (CRC Series in Computational Mechanics and Applied Analysis), Boca Raton, Fla.:CRC Press,→ISBN, section 1.1 (Introduction),page 1:
  Engines that use fire have been sources of power and propulsion only in the past several centuries, and have succeeded in liberating humankind fromdrudgery.
- 2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the CalculatedMary Poppins Returns Go Down”, inThe A.V. Club‎^[1], archived fromthe original on24 May 2019:
  She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in dailydrudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.