Drudge - English meaning

verb

Partially burn so as to blacken the surface.

Usage examples:

A region charred by bush fires

noun

Material that has been charred.

Usage examples:

She trimmed the char from the wicks of the oil lamps

verb

Work as a charwoman.

Usage examples:

She'd had to char and work in a grocery store to put herself through university

noun

A charwoman.

Usage examples:

Caine's mother was a charlady, so the scenes in the rural pile in the movie had a far deeper resona…

noun

A charwoman uk old-fashioned

noun

A woman employed as a cleaner in a house or office.

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In the following six sections, the charwoman mrs. mcnab enters the house, ‘tearing the veil of sile…

noun

A woman whose job is to clean and tidy an office or private house

noun

A person who is given menial tasks to do, especially a junior in an office.

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I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine

noun

A person who does boring or unpleasant jobs that people who are considered more important do not want to do

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It is possible to become a junior account executive without previous experience - although you woul…

noun

An employee who does all kinds of work.

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He was employed as the general factotum

noun

A person employed to do all types of jobs for someone

Usage examples:

He became a sort of general factotum for the band.

noun

A person who runs errands, especially on a film set or in an office; a dogsbody.

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He had worked his way from a gofer in the front office to general manager

noun

A person whose job is to take messages or to collect and deliver things for other people

noun

Someone who does boring jobs for other employees, for example carrying messages or making drinks

Usage examples:

David works as a gofer at an independent television production company.

verb

Cut with rough or heavy blows.

Usage examples:

Hack off the branches and let them fall to the ground

noun

A rough cut, blow, or stroke.

Usage examples:

He was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him

verb

Ride a horse for pleasure or exercise.

Usage examples:

The two riders hacked along the trail through the woods

noun

A boy or man employed to undertake domestic duties.

Usage examples:

I wouldn't mind getting a primer from some reputable person with experience running houseboys, or h…

noun

A person doing unskilled manual work for wages.

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A farm labourer

noun

A person who does physical work, especially outdoors

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Agricultural/farm labourers he told reporters they were farm laborers, and he could not say if they…

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

adjective

(of work) not requiring much skill and lacking prestige.

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Menial factory jobs

noun

A person with a menial job.

Usage examples:

Despite tall claims that a determined attempt to eradicate child labour has been initiated, hundred…

noun

A spanish american day labourer or unskilled farm worker.

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After playing the game for 50 minutes, the computer will have successfully constructed one farm and…

noun

A farm worker in south america who does jobs that do not need any particular skill

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The boss just never talked to peons like us. it was beneath her.

noun

A person that runs, especially in a specified way.

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Mary was a fast runner

noun

A long, narrow blade designed to slide over ice easily, fixed to the bottom of skates (= a type of boot) or snow vehicles

noun

A person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.

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Financially they were well enough established to be able to employ a domestic servant.

noun

A person who is employed to do work for another person, esp. to work in another person’s home doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning

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A civil/public servant

noun

A female domestic servant who performs menial tasks.

Usage examples:

I found a job as a maid-of-all-work, a skivvy

verb

Do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy.

Usage examples:

I was skivvying for that brixton family

noun

A person, in the past a female servant, who does the dirty and unpleasant jobs in a house, such as cleaning

Usage examples:

He treats me like a skivvy., i wouldn't strip down to my skivvies for any amount of money., skivvy …

noun

A person who is forced to work for and obey another and is considered to be their property; an enslaved person.

Usage examples:

They kidnapped entire towns and turned the inhabitants into slaves

verb

(especially in the past) a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.

Usage examples:

They kidnapped entire towns and turned them into slaves

noun

A person who does a specified type of work or who works in a specified way.

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A farm worker

noun

A person who is paid for using effort to do something

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Clerical/factory/farm workers, skilled/unskilled workers

noun

A person who works for a company or organization

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Some of the region's employers have developed shortages of high-tech workers., employers will requi…