Definition of "drudge"

drudge

/dɹʌd͡ʒ/

noun
plural drudges
1. A person who works in a low servile job.
2. (derogatory) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
verb
third-person singular simple present drudges, present participle drudging, simple past and past participle drudged
1. (intransitive) To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.
  Quotations
  Rise to our Toils and drudge away the day.
  1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd
  He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged.
  1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith ”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871