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drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒərɪ] n pl -eries hard, menial, and monotonous work drudgery dull, laborious, or menial work. — drudge, n. See also: Work
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drudgery Translations drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒərɪ] N → trabajo m pesado to take the drudgery out of work → hacer el trabajo menos pesado drudgery n → stumpfsinnige Plackerei or Schufterei (inf); it’s sheer drudgery → es ist eine einzige Plackerei drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒ/ərɪ] n → fatica housework is sheer drudgery → sbrigare le faccende domestiche è un lavoro pesante e ingrato drudgery [ˈdrʌdʒ/ərɪ] n → fatica housework is sheer drudgery → sbrigare le faccende domestiche è un lavoro pesante e ingrato How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment. George was taken home, and put to the meanest drudgery of the farm. For a while she had kept both herself and the child on the twelve shillings a week that twelve hours' drudgery a day procured her, paying six shillings out of it for the child, and keeping her own body and soul together on the remainder. |
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