drudge

/drʌdʒ/
noun
  1. A person who does hard, boring, or unpleasant work.
    • In the old factory, workers were treated as mere drudges with no breaks.
    • He felt like a drudge, spending every weekend cleaning the office.
    • She was tired of being a household drudge and wanted to pursue her art.
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verb
  1. To do hard, boring, or unpleasant work.
    • They had to drudge through piles of paperwork before the deadline.
    • All day long, the laborers drudged in the hot sun without complaint.
    • I don't want to drudge over these math problems all night.