drudgery

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌd͡ʒəɹi/
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• CMU ARPABET: D R AH1 JH ER0 IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From drudge (“person who works in a low servile job”) + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of’ forming nouns).

31 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: angari — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Chinese Mandarin: 苦差事 (kǔchāishi) — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Czech: dřina — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Czech: lopota — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Czech: otročina — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Dutch: hard labeur — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Esperanto: teda laborado — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Finnish: raadanta — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Finnish: raataminen — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• French: corvée — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• German: Plackerei — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• German: Schinderei — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Greek: αγγαρεία (angareía) — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Irish: crácamas — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Irish: sclábhaíocht — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Japanese: 苦役 (kueki) — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Korean: 고역 (goyeok) — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Polish: harówka — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Polish: babranina — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Polish: papranina — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Portuguese: labuta — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Portuguese: lida — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Russian: тяжёлая рабо́та (tjažólaja rabóta) — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Russian: ну́дная рабо́та (núdnaja rabóta) — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Scottish Gaelic: tràillealachd — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Serbo-Croatian: ку̀лук — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Serbo-Croatian: тла̏ка — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Serbo-Croatian: kùluk — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Serbo-Croatian: tlȁka — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Swedish: slavgöra — exhausting, menial, and tedious work
• Welsh: slafdod — exhausting, menial, and tedious work