drudgerie
English
Etymology
From drudge + -erie.
Noun
drudgerie (plural drudgeries)
- Obsolete spelling of drudgery
- 1580, Thomas Tusser, “A Comparison betweene Champion Countrie and Seuerall”, in Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie: […], London: […] Henrie Denham [beeing the assigne of William Seres] […], OCLC 837741850; republished as W[illiam] Payne and Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, OCLC 7391867535, stanza 4, page 141:
- What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / What drudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe; Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […], OCLC 1203323776; reprinted as Dido, Queen of Carthage (Tudor Facsimile Texts; 72), Old English Drama Students’ Facsimile edition, [Amersham, Buckinghamshire: […] [E]ditor of the Tudor Facsimile Texts (i.e., John S. Farmer)], 1914, OCLC 897399266, Act IV:
- I may not dure this female drudgerie, / To ſea Æneas, finde out Italy.
- 1652, “A Short Advertisement to the Reader”, in Eugenius Philalethes [i.e., Thomas Vaughan], transl., The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of the R: C: Commonly, of the Rosie Cross. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for Giles Calvert, […], OCLC 1203212853, page 58:
- Here he met with a Drudgerie almoſt invincible, and if we add the Task to the Time, it is enough to make a Man old.
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