drudge

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Instead of Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren playing picture-perfect Mitch and Melanie, the original presents Nat Hocken, a disabled war veteran who works as a farm laborer, and whose wife remains a nameless domestic drudge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

It’s a Cinderella story, minus everything but the drudge and the stepmother.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2021

In his line of work, the requirements of the season can at times seem like a drudge.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2021

Other reasons include fear of the coronavirus, lack of child care, an unwillingness to return to underpaid, drudge jobs and long-hauler covid victims who still are not well enough to work.

From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2021

Anyway, yesterday and the day before they needed someone else to do all these challenging tasks while they found another drudge to replace her.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein