drudgery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun hard monotonous routine work
    donkeywork; plodding; grind.

WordNet

Drudg"er*y noun
Definitions
  1. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil.
    The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay.
    Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.
    Syn. -- See Toll.

Webster 1913