Drudge vs Serf - What's the difference?
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A person who works in a low servile job.
(pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.
to labour in (or as in) a low servile job
* Otway
* Macaulay
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.
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)Derived terms
* drudgery * drudgyVerb
(drudg)- Rise in our toils and drudge away the day.
- He gradually rose in the estimation of the booksellers for whom he drudged .