• IPA: /dɹʌdʒ/

drudge (plural drudges)

1. A person who works in a low servile job.
2. (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

• dree
• adree

• French: larbin, sous-merde, moins-que-rien
• German: Hiwi (colloquial), Sklave, Lakai
• Russian: чернорабо́чий
• Spanish: esclavo, lacayo, currito

• French: valet, laquais, larbin
• Russian: раб

drudge (drudges, present participle drudging; past and past participle drudged)

1. (intransitive) To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

   • Rise in our toils and drudge away the day.

   • 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Goldsmith,_Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver]”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

     He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged.

• Russian: тяну́ть ля́мку