drudge

nouns

one who works hard at boring tasks

drudge, hack, hacker

a laborer who is obliged to do menial work

drudge, galley slave, navvy, peon

work hard

"She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail

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