The word "drudge" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who does laborious or menial work, usually with a sense of dread or displeasure. For example, "The miner spends all day in the mine, feeling like a drudge."
Raazikou allegedly bought the girl for 200,000 CFA francs (£248) and put her to work as a domestic drudge for one of his four other wives.
Once a job on a production line was a soul-destroying drudge; nowadays that label has fallen on service-sector jobs in call centres and fast-food restaurants.Apart from technology, the three most successful industries of the past 50 years have been finance, pharmaceuticals and energy.
Dean Simonton of the University of California, San Diego, dubbed it the "drudge theory" of genius in a recent book review.Dr Simonton considers genius to have more of a genetic component.
That is a shame, because their central idea that the world might be a better place if work was less of a necessary drudge and more of a rewarding experience in itself is hard to argue with.
He opens with the theme of the drudge—"humble", as well as "harmless"—who can hardly win at the occupation he has chosen.
Rich-world workers have been able to leave the drudge work to someone else.
His Bartleby is a deeply anti-social scrivener an office copyist in the pre-photocopier age who, when asked to do anything, politely declines, saying he "would prefer not to".Similarly, Mr Vila-Matas's narrator, Marcelo, is a reclusive office drudge.
Over time specialist firms spring up to do the drudge work.
Overall, abroad defeated America by two to one.These decisions were not all about moving drudge work to countries with low wages.
The drudge work of taking customers' money and delivering goods will increasingly be moved online, leaving sales consultants to sell, pamper and provide the human touch.
It is indeed marvellous for Mr Drudge.
