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Drudge vs Serf - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between drudge and serf

is that drudge is a person who works in a low servile job while serf is a partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.

As a verb drudge

is to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

drudge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who works in a low servile job.
  • (pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
  • Derived terms

    * drudgery * drudgy

    Verb

    (drudg)
  • to labour in (or as in) a low servile job
  • * Otway
  • Rise in our toils and drudge away the day.
  • * Macaulay
  • He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged .

    serf

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
  • A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
  • (strategy games) A worker unit.
  • Synonyms

    * (strategy games) peasant, peon, villager

    Derived terms

    * serfage * serfdom * serfhood * serfish * serfism

    See also

    * slave

    Anagrams

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