drudgery, plodding, grind, donkeywork
(noun) hard monotonous routine work
Source: WordNet® 3.1
drudgery (countable and uncountable, plural drudgeries)
Tedious, menial, and exhausting work.
• chore, toil, dogsbody work, corvée (dated), fatigue (military), swink (archaic); see also drudgery
Source: Wiktionary
Drudg"er*y, n.
Definition: The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.
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– See Toll.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2025
(noun) generation of an electric charge on certain crystals (such as tourmaline) as a result of a change in temperature
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
