Synonyms for drudge

Most common

servant · minion · menial · peon · galley slave · navvy · hacker · drone

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

Verb

Definitions

1. n. 1

   A person who works in a low servile job.

2. n. 2

   Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

3. v. 1

   To labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

Related words

Word family

drudgery drudgy

Forms

Plural

drudges → menials, peons, servants, minions…

Past participle

drudged
e.g. drudged → toiled, labored, worked, plodded…

Example sentences

• servant A small regent is worth more than a large servant.
• minion Robert was just a minion for Sandra's strict dad.
• menial Tom can only find menial work in this economy.
• peon The boss treats her like a peon.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters

dig¹, fag¹

4 letters

work¹, hack¹, grub¹, toil¹, peon², plod¹

5 letters

labor², slave¹, sweat¹, drone¹, grind¹, moyle¹, navvy

6 letters

labour², hacker², minion², menial³, toiler

7 letters

servant², laborer³, travail²

8 letters

labourer, scullion²

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (peon² = 2 syllables).