drudge
/dɹʌd͡ʒ/ · noun
Meaning
- A person who works in a low servile job.
- Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
- To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English druggen, perhaps from Old English *dryċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *druggjan, from Proto-Germanic *drugjaną, a denominative built to a lost noun *drugjaz (preserved in Old English Dryċġhelm), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-; compare Old English drēogan (“to do; to suffer”).
- drēogan(ang)→
- *dʰrewgʰ-(ine-pro)→
- druggen(Middle English)→
- drudge (English)
- Relations: inh, der, cog
Related words
Descendant words
- dreich(Scots) (cog)
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