What does drudgery mean?
Definitions for drudgery
ˈdrʌdʒ ə ridrud·ge·ry
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Princeton's WordNet
drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeyworknoun
hard monotonous routine work
Wiktionary
drudgerynoun
tedious, menial and exhausting work
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Drudgerynoun
Mean labour; ignoble toil; dishonourable work; servile occupation.
Etymology: from drudge.
My old dame will be undone for one to do her husbandry, and her drudgery. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.
Were there not instruments for drudgery as well as offices of drudgery? Were there not people to receive orders as well as others to give and authorize them? Roger L'Estrange.
You do not know the heavy grievances,
The toils, the labours, weary drudgeries,
Which they impose. Thomas Southerne, Oroonoko.To thee that drudgery of pow’r I give;
Cares be thy lot: reign thou, and let me live. John Dryden, Auren.Paradise was a place of bliss, as well as immortality, without drudgery, and without sorrow. John Locke.
Even drudgery himself,
As at the car he sweats, or dusty hews
The palace-stone, looks gay. James Thomson, Summer, l. 1445.It is now handled by every dirty wench, and condemned to do her drudgery. Jonathan Swift, Meditations on a Broomstick.
Wikipedia
drudgery
A laborer (or labourer) is a person who works in manual labor types in the construction industry workforce. Laborers are in a working class of wage-earners in which their only possession of significant material value is their labor. Industries employing laborers include building things such as roads, buildings, bridges, tunnels, and railway tracks. Laborers work with blasting tools, hand tools, power tools, air tools, and small heavy equipment, and act as assistants to other trades as well such as operators or cement masons. The 1st century BC engineer Vitruvius writes that a good crew of laborers is just as valuable as any other aspect of construction. Other than the addition of pneumatics, laborer practices have changed little. With the introduction of field technologies, the laborers have been quick to adapt to the use of this technology as being laborers' work.
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drudgery
Drudgery refers to hard, tedious, dull, tiresome, or monotonous work. It is often associated with work that doesn't require much skill, is repetitive, and doesn't offer personal satisfaction or intellectual stimulation.
Webster Dictionary
Drudgerynoun
the act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of drudgery in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of drudgery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of drudgery in a Sentence
A large part of your brain is shackled by the boredom and drudgery of everyday existence, you have to drive a car, vacuum the floor or take the garbage out. But imagine if technology could come along and take care of all these mundane chores for you, and allow you to indulge in the forms of creative expression that only the human brain can indulge in. What a beautiful world we would be able to create around us.
The every-day cares and duties which men call drudgery are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of Time, giving its pendulum a true vibration, and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon the wheels, the pendulum no longer sways, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
Vision without a task is only a dream. A task without a vision is but drudgery. But vision with a task is a dream fulfilled.
A man of quick and active wit For drudgery is more unfit, Compared to those of duller parts, Than running nags are to draw carts.
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- lopota, dřinaCzech
- PlackereiGerman
- αγγαρείαGreek
- trabajo penosoSpanish
- raataminen, raadantaFinnish
- corvéeFrench
- tràillealachdScottish Gaelic
- pekerjaan yg membosankanIndonesian
- faticosoItalian
- 苦役Japanese
- ಚಮತ್ಕಾರKannada
- harówkaPolish
- [[trabalho]] [[exaustivo]] e [[tedioso]]Portuguese
- [[нудный, [[тяжёлыйRussian
- tlaka, kulukSerbo-Croatian
- 苦差事Chinese
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