What's the difference between drudge and drudgery?

Drudge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
  • (v. t.) To consume laboriously; -- with away.
  • (n.) One who drudges; one who works hard in servile employment; a mental servant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When I first read her at the age of 13, I thought she was another boring Gothic drudge who got lucky.
  • (2) Weeks after Rove’s comments, a former Drudge Report editor, Joseph Curl, published a column at the Washington Times demanding Clinton’s health records be made public.
  • (3) While drudging away in a dry cleaners, Tommo has a brainwave: by half-inching various outfits, he can test-drive possible vocations while also charming the ladies.
  • (4) The 40-minute video – released in a carefully choreographed operation between Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson, Fox News host Sean Hannity and Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge – was shot in Virginia in June 2007 as Obama was campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination.
  • (5) If you didn't like the focus on birds and beer, you were easily classed as a frump and a drudge.
  • (6) The ribbing was all the more caustic given Drudge's status as the Clintons' historic bête noire – it was the Drudge Report that broke the Monica Lewinsky story in 1998.
  • (7) MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) Curious tape dropping tonight.
  • (8) Romney refers multiple times – three or four in an appearance that lasted as many minutes – to the current top story on the Drudge report, about an audio tape from 1998 in which Barack Obama says he favors some redistribution of wealth.
  • (9) That hasn’t stopped conservative websites like the Drudge Report from declaring “IT BEGINS” or Breitbart News from blaring From ‘Dead Broke’ to $$$,$$$,$$$: Clinton Cash ‘Most Anticipated and Feared Book of Presidential Cycle’.
  • (10) It is intuitively obvious that the longer you are expected to drudge, the less productive your drudgery is likely to be.
  • (11) The Drudge Report published what appeared to be an outline of Ailes’s potential exit package, which included a $40m payoff.
  • (12) Carlson's view, which has been echoed now by Drudge, and much of the Fox line-up , is that this dangerously, insidiously, and rudely sets black Americans against white Americans.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.05pm BST To begin with a sideshow: if you haven't been following the pitiful exertions of Matt Drudge and Tucker Carlson to resurrect the Jeremiah Wright controversy, we applaud and admire you.
  • (14) The drudge of interplanetary travel has emerged from research on six men who joined the longest simulated space mission ever : a 17-month round trip to the red planet in a pretend spaceship housed at a Moscow industrial estate.
  • (15) As does Drudge's willingness to troll his base follower-ship.
  • (16) Why drudge up abuse allegations several decades later?
  • (17) The Drudge Report, a powerful news aggregator popular with conservatives, linked to the Yucatan Times article with some commenters hailed the tourists for avenging alleged Mexican loutishness in the US.
  • (18) Matt Drudge mischievously wondered in a tweet whether the People magazine cover shows her holding a walking frame (she is in fact leaning on a patio chair) – a play on the fact that she would be 69 at her inauguration, were she to run and win in 2016.
  • (19) The fact that the poll was created by and appeared on the homepage of drudgereport.com means it was probably more of a representation of Drudge readers than the country as a whole.
  • (20) By denying ourselves access to our own inner worlds, we are stopping up the well of our imagination, that which raises us above the drudge and grind of mere survival, that which makes us human.

Drudgery


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He loved the excitement and the glitter of his post, but could never really accept the hours of drudgery and tedium that the job of Liberal leader involved.
  • (2) The circumstances, a malaise of drudgery and petty distraction in the society around him, are described, and his general wish "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived".
  • (3) A data acquisition system that automatically discards corrupted or undesirable signals would save untold hours of drudgery for researchers.
  • (4) In the Pentagon worldview, however, there is simply no drug use, nor any factory-style drudgery, and no one in the US Air Force is, was or ever shall be light enough in the loafers to invoke The Wizard Of Oz poetically.
  • (5) It would be unfortunate if urodynamicists were required to learn of the phenomena and their implications by the drudgery of repeated measurements rather than taking guidance from previous work.
  • (6) But in 1963, when Gloria Steinem went undercover in the New York club for Show magazine, she described a life of swollen feet, drudgery, "demerits" for laddered tights or scruffy tails, and a constant low-level thrum of sexual harassment.
  • (7) Hundreds of passionate feminists, female and male, are walking to rally against the daily violence, discrimination and drudgery women across the world continue to face.
  • (8) Instead of dwelling on the drudgery, I concentrated on that day’s assignment.
  • (9) Fluoxetine is a significant step in that direction, he argued, and we would inevitably possess drugs that "reduce the common experiences of drudgery such as going to work on Monday mornings for those who, at present, are not seen as suffering from a mood disorder, without obvious side effects or 'impairment' in judgment."
  • (10) At their best, soaps find drama in the everyday and the mark of Wainwright’s work is that, however dramatic, there is a respect for the drudgery and humdrum nature of much of life.
  • (11) A collision of technologies, indoor plumbing, electricity and the affordable automatic washing machine have all but put paid to large laundries and the drudgery of hand-washing,” says the report.
  • (12) It is intuitively obvious that the longer you are expected to drudge, the less productive your drudgery is likely to be.
  • (13) The more hours of drudgery you endure the more of a mother you are and, therefore, the more important your job is.
  • (14) Leaving for another day the question of admiration, since only a barrister can really know how much pain is incurred when legal drudgery is sacrificed for the cut and thrust of baby pilates, it was Mr Clegg's shared belief, with Laura Perrins, that "choice" is involved in the average working parents' lives that was most unworthy.
  • (15) If he became an MP and Cameron won a second term, Johnson would have to accept some form of ministerial drudgery which might take the shine of his star quality.
  • (16) Otherwise it is just thankless drudgery – no less demoralising and demotivating than long-term unemployment.
  • (17) It is argued that the HGP is a new form of coordinated, interdisciplinary science; that its primary objective must be seen as the creation of a tool for biomedical research--a source book that will be the basis of study of variation and function for a long time; that the impact on scientist training will be salutary by relieving graduate students of useless drudgery and by training scientists competent in both molecular genetics and computational science; and that the funding of the HGP will have an insignificant negative effect on science funding generally, and indeed may have a beneficial effect through economy of scale and a focusing of attention on the excitement of biology and medical science.
  • (18) They say that the drudgery of life beats the anonymity of death.
  • (19) SCORE, a program for computer-assisted scoring of Southern blots of clone DNA, retains the use of expert human judgment while taking over much of the drudgery of the scoring task.
  • (20) I don't seek inspiration, and my work is also not a horrible drudgery.