Word of the Day: Drudge

drudge

drudge / drŭj

noun

1. one who performs tedious, menial or unpleasant work

When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.

Susan B. Anthony, 1820 – 1906

verb

1. to labor at a tedious, boring or unpleasant task or job

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal, 1925 – 2012