drudgery

[Eng. drudger; -y.] Mean, servile work; hard and ignoble labor. "He declined no drudgery in the common cause, provided only that it were such drudgery as did not misbecome an honest man." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xiv. For the difference between drudgery and work , see WORK. †drudg-I-cal, a. [Eng. drudg (e); -ical.] Pertaining to or of the nature of a drudge. "The Drudges, gathering round them whosoever is Drudgical, be he Christian or Infidel Pagan." -Carlyle : Sartor Resartus , bk. iii., ch. x. drůdg-ing, pr . par ., a. & s. [DRUDGE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par . & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The same as DRUDGERY (q. v.). drudging-box, s. A dredging-box (q. v.). drudg-ing-lỹ, adv. [Eng. drudging; ly.] In a laborious, toiling manner; laboriously, toilsomely. *drû-er-le, *dru-er-y, *dru-rie, *dru-ry, *dru-rye, *drew-er-y, *dry-wer-y, *drew-rye, 8. [O. Fr. druerie ; Prov. drudaria ; Ital. druderie ; O. H. Ger. trút , drút =a friend, a companion, a partner.] 1. Courtesy, gallantry, courtship. "Wymmen ne kepte of no knyghte as in druery." Robert of Gloucester, p. 191. 2. A mistre , a sweetheart. 3. Anything valuable or highly prized. "Thenne dre ed he his drurye double hym aboute." Gawaine, 2,033.