DRUDGE, DRUDGING, DRUDGERY
ADJECTIVES
1900 — AT THE FATCH drudging, toiling → Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1644 — DROIL drudgery; toil in disagreeable work; mean labour → obs.
1780 — FAG drudgery, toil, hard work, anything that causes weariness → colloq.
1813 — MOIL drudgery, toil, hard labour → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1864 — MOILD drudgery, toil, labour → Eng. dial.
1875 — SKODGERY drudgery → Sc.
1891 — DADERY drudgery, exhausting work → Sc.
1958 — SHITWORK drudgery, menial or routine work → sl.
1970 — GRUNT WORK drudgery, menial work → US sl.
DRUDGE etc. – NOUNS, PERSON
1382 — HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER drudges; labourers of the lowest kind
1546 — HACKNEY a common drudge; a menial servant; a person whose services may be hired for any kind of work required of him → obs.
1563 — MOILER a drudge; a toiler; a person who moils or labours; a hard worker
1579 — DROIL a drudge; a servant of all work → obs.
1590 — POOR SNAKE a drudge; a poor, needy, or humble person
1594 — PACK-HORSE a drudge; a menial servant; a slave
1664 — SLUT a drudge; a kitchen maid
1684 — UNDER-LOUT a drudge; an underling; the lowest boy on a farm; a lazy servant-boy → Eng. dial.
1688 — JACKAL a drudge; a menial servant; a person who does drudgery for another, or ministers to his requirements
1699 — HACK a drudge; a lackey; a person who may be hired to do any kind of work as required
1741 — SCOURY a drudge; an odd-job man → Sc.
1782 — SCODGE a drudge; a menial, as a kitchen-boy or girl; one who does odd jobs about a farm → Sc.
1782 — SCODGIE → SCODGY a drudge; a menial, as a kitchen-boy or girl; one who does odd jobs about a farm → Sc.
1782 — SCOGIE a drudge; a menial, as a kitchen-boy or girl; one who does odd jobs about a farm → Sc.
1782 — SCUDGIE → SKUDGY a drudge, a menial, as a kitchen-boy or girl; one who does odd jobs about a farm → Sc.
1786 — SCOGIE-LASS a female drudge or kitchen-maid → Sc.
1798 — GIBEONITE a drudge; a menial; one of the inhabitants of Gibeon who were condemned by Joshua to be ‘hewers of wood an drawers of water’ for the Israelites
..19C — CINDER-GRABBER a female drudge → sl.
..E19 — SLUSH a drudge → Eng. dial.
1813 — FAG a drudge; an errand boy or clerk
1820 — SCOUGIE a drudge; a boy or girl who cleans boots, or does the dirty work of the kitchen → Sc.
1825 — ASHIEPATTLE → ASSIEPATTLE a drudge; a Cinderella → Sc.
1825 — LARY a drudge; a servant, an odd-job man → Sc. obs.
1892 — ROUSEABOUT a drudge → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1902 — PACK-WATER a drudge; one who is at another’s beck and call; one who will do drudgery for small favours, or favourable opinion → Amer. dial.
1905 — HAG → HAGG a drudge; one who does another’s tasks → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — TACKY-LACKY a drudge; a person at everyone’s beck and call → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1922 — DOGSBODY a drudge; a junior person to whom a variety of menial tasks is given → colloq., orig. nautical usage
1923 — ASSIE-PAN a drudge, a Cinderella → Sc.
1969 — SCLAVE a drudge; a slave → Sc.
VERBS
1591 — DROIL to drudge, to slave, to toil in mean work; to work sluggishly or slowly; to plod → obs.
1777 — MOIL to drudge, to toil, to labour, to work hard → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1808 — SCODGE to act as a drudge; to do rough menial work; to do odd jobs → Sc.
1888 — DELVE to drudge, to work hard, to slave → Eng. dial.
1898 — SCODGY to act as a drudge; to clean, to scrub → Sc.
1914 — DAD to drudge, to plod, to trudge → Sc.
1969 — SCLAVE to drudge, to slave → Sc.