What's the difference between drudge and trudge?

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.

Trudge


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To walk or march with labor; to jog along; to move wearily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
  • (2) 7:23pm: Out trudge the players, looking tense - perhaps because of the stakes of the match, or maybe because of all the formalities Fifa make them endure before kick-off.
  • (3) Then they trudged through heavy, deep snow and climbed up to another ridge.
  • (4) Some of these measures appeared to be lifted over the weekend, but as thousands trudged or bussed their way towards Austria and then Germany, the dismal scenes in Hungary will stain one administration’s human rights record – and perhaps the reputation of a nation.
  • (5) Crunching their way gingerly along pavements scattered with de-icing salt, they hurried from shop to shop – young mothers wheeling pushchairs, older women leaning heavily on shopping trolleys, men trudging alongside their partners, laden with carrier bags.
  • (6) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
  • (7) The rest of us may be baffled that the slowest trudge out of recession in history has been followed by the fastest growth of any advanced economy.
  • (8) They come to us alive with intentionality, describing themselves in movement, waltzing through the ballroom, trudging through the marsh after wildfowl, racing horses, cutting hay.
  • (9) Two days later, with the snow falling hard, I trudge across town to Nymphomaniac's base camp.
  • (10) There was a something of an installation art mystery tonight after the sudden closure of the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall , where visitors have been enjoyably trudging through and relaxing on the artist Ai Weiwei's vast grey field of 100m sunflower seeds.
  • (11) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
  • (12) Visitors to their new European home will soon be able to observe the pair in captivity, while rangers in their homeland are trudging through forests, collecting DNA samples and logging droppings and paw prints.
  • (13) On what was to become a hot and nearly cloudless day Canadians trudged towards the site, most wearing the national colours, many carrying maple leaf flags in their hair or on their baseball caps or T-shirts.
  • (14) Delegates trudge past youth protesters doing street theatre or interpretive dance with barely a glance.
  • (15) At first, they simply trudged across the rolling landscapes, randomly attacking the sheep, cows and ducks that graze each Minecraft world.
  • (16) Lessons learned ... Feminism is dead Over the 476 minutes of vampires, wolves and long, lingering looks, Bella's life (much like life after 30) is a depressing trudge towards marriage and babies.
  • (17) I trudged for hours on footpaths without seeing anyone.
  • (18) Ordinary citizens trudge in from work, there's a warm murmur of chat, they sing the first few notes of A Little Respect, and we step from the grey of the outside streets into a sunnier, brighter world.
  • (19) So, I will have to continue trudging down to one or other of the local hospitals for treatment, and get the snuffles, or worse, on the way.
  • (20) As we left the intimate cocoon of the pub, my bouncy excitement became more of a trudge as, heart in mouth, I babbled and swore, and panicked that I couldn't do it, terrified that stage fright and nerves would overtake me, and that my tentative voice would abandon me altogether.