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Effort vs Drudgy - What's the difference?

effort | drudgy |

As nouns the difference between effort and drudgy

is that effort is the work involved in performing an activity; exertion while drudgy is drudgery; labour.

As a verb effort

is (uncommon|intransitive) to make an effort.

As an adjective drudgy is

suggestive of drudgery; being excessively hard or requiring excessive effort.

effort

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
  • * , chapter=23
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=June 22, author=Press Association, work=The Guardian
    • , title= Manchester United offer Park Ji-sung a new two-year contract , passage=The 30-year-old South Korean, who joined United in 2005, retired from international duty after last season's Asian Cup in an effort to prolong his club}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
  • An endeavour.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
    • , volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
  • A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.
    • (Rankine)

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "effort": conscious, good, poor, etc.

    Synonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * best efforts * centre of effort * effort distance * effortless * make an effort

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (uncommon) To make an effort.
  • (obsolete) To stimulate.
  • * Fuller
    • He efforted his spirits.

    Statistics

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    drudgy

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Suggestive of drudgery; being excessively hard or requiring excessive effort.
  • * 1922 , American Library Association, Bulletin of the American Library Association: Volume 16 :
    • We can find it nowhere so clearly as in these old journals, this collection of local historical material that makes such drudgy work to collect and catalog.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (drudgies)
  • Drudgery; labour.
  • * 1824 , William Huggins, Sketches in India :
    • Horses are kept only for riding, whilst bullocks are yoked in the plough and cart, perform every kind of domestic drudgey , and endure the heat better than any other animal they have got [...]