drudge
English
/dɹʌdʒ/
noun
Definitions
- A person who works in a low servile job.
- (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be take advantage taken advantage of by) someone else.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English druggen.
Origin
Middle English
druggen
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- drudger English
- drudgery English
- drudgery-ridden English
- drudgework English
- drudgy English
- endrudge English
- work English
- *dreuganą Proto-Germanic
- adreogan Old English
- drēogan Old English
- þurhdreogan Old English
- dreen Middle English
- druggen Middle English