drudgery
Exhausting, menial, and tedious workExhausting, menial, and tedious work.
» The drudgery of housework never ends.
Meaning
1 senses(countable, uncountable)Exhausting, menial, and tedious work.
Plackerei, Schinderei
тяжёлая рабо́таtjažólaja rabóta, ну́дная рабо́таnúdnaja rabóta
- hard monotonous routine work
Examples
6 sentencesThe drudgery of housework never ends.
Work is drudgery if you don't think it's meditative.
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.
What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect.
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.
Translations
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Origin
From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craFrom 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: drudgeriesSynonyms
14 synonyms- hard monotonous routine work:ploddinggrinddonkeywork
Word family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable