Definitions for drudges

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Spelling: [druhj]
IPA: /drʌdʒ/

Drudges is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in drudges (ddegrsu).

Definitions for drudges

noun

  1. a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
  2. a person who works in a routine, unimaginative way.

verb (used without object)

  1. to perform menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.

Origin of drudges

1485-95; compare OE man's name Drycghelm helmet maker, equivalent to drycg (akin to drēogan to work) + helm helm2

Examples for drudges

But they had heard the same before, and were yet the drudges of his will.

Bush-harrows, which are at work in the meadows at this time of year, are drudges or dredges.

They are the drudges and bearers of burdens, for the whole community.

Then will the rich have their Harems, and the poor their drudges.

Even here it is a fine wide stream, and seems to scorn the beggarly ditch that drudges like a pack-horse by its side.

You belong with the oxen and the drudges, in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches.

That's the great empire they boast about of drudges and whipped serfs.

There is nothing for them but to be drudges and mothers, to bear and to bring up children.

The chief solicitude of the rich and of the ruler in the old civilization had been to keep up a supply of drudges.

Society does little else than to teach its girls to be dolls and drudges.

Word Value for drudges
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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