Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.

    Plackerei, Schinderei

    тяжёлая рабо́таtjažólaja rabóta, ну́дная рабо́таnúdnaja rabóta

More definitions
  • hard monotonous routine work

Examples

6 sentences
  1. The drudgery of housework never ends.

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  2. Work is drudgery if you don't think it's meditative.

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  3. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world.

    deTrotz all ihrem Schein, der Plackerei und den zerbrochenen Träumen ist diese Welt doch wunderschön.

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  4. What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect.

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  5. She does her homework on Fridays to save herself from the drudgery of having to do it during the weekend.

    ruОна делает домашнюю работу по пятницам, чтобы избавить себя от этого нудного занятия на выходных.

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Translations

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Русский
By meaning 1
exhausting, menial, and tedious work:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
exhausting, menial, and tedious work:

Origin

From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, cra

From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of’ forming nouns).

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Forms

plural: drudgeries

Synonyms

14 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

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