The occupation of a drudge; mean or servile labour; wearisome toil; dull or distasteful work.

Severe toil like that of a slave; heavy labour, hard work, drudgery.

Work appropriate to a servant of low status; drudgery. Obsolete. rare.

(under-, prefix1 affix 3a(b).)

drudgery.

Drudgery; toil in disagreeable work.

colloquial. A tiring or unwelcome task; hard work, toil, drudgery. Also: exhaustion, fatigue (cf. brain fag, n.).

Drudgery.

A hard effort; an unfulfilling occupation.

Laborious work with seemingly little point or value.