drudg·ing /ˈdrʌʤɪŋ/
Drudge v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drudged p. pr. & vb. n. Drudging.] To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged. --Macaulay.
drudging
adj : doing arduous or unpleasant work; "drudging peasants"; "the
bent backs of laboring slaves picking cotton"; "toiling
coal miners in the black deeps" [syn: laboring, labouring,
toiling]