Drudge vs Thrall - What's the difference?
drudge | thrall |
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
One who is enslaved or under mind control.
* 14th century , ,
* 1915 , ,
(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.
* 1864 , ,
* 1889 , ,
* 1911 , ,
A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
As nouns the difference between drudge and thrall
is that drudge is a person who works in a low servile job while thrall is one who is enslaved or under mind control.As verbs the difference between drudge and thrall
is that drudge is to labour in (or as in) a low servile job while thrall is to make a thrall.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 .
thrall
English
Noun
(en noun)- My servant, which that is my thrall by right
- And there were household slaves in golden collars that burned of a plenty there with her, and nine female thralls , and eight male slaves of the Angles that were of gentle birth and battle-captured.
- Go: release him from the thrall of Hautia.
- [Y]our friend, John Edward, is at the other end of the room with his whole soul held in thrall by photographs of other people's relatives.
- In her brain she was dimly conscious of balancing, or striving to balance, the abject shame which had him now in thrall against the one compelling act of courage which had flung him grandly and madly on to the point of danger.