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, corvĂ©e (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.
Syn.
– See Toll.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2024
(verb) include or contain; have as a component; “A totally new idea is comprised in this paper”; “The record contains many old songs from the 1930’s”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
