A drudge is a person who does hard, boring work, day after day, with little thanks or interest — the jobs nobody else wants. Old stories put drudges in kitchens and big houses; modern speakers use it for dull office or house work too. The word is a little old-fashioned, and it can sound unkind if you pin it on a real person, so people often use it about a feeling (“I felt like a drudge”) rather than as a job title. There is also a verb: to drudge is to do that kind of work. The work itself is drudgery — dull and heavy.