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Vassal vs Drudge - What's the difference?

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Vassal is a related term of drudge.


As nouns the difference between vassal and drudge

is that vassal is (historical) the grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant while drudge is a person who works in a low servile job.

As verbs the difference between vassal and drudge

is that vassal is to treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave while drudge is to labour in (or as in) a low servile job.

As an adjective vassal

is resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

vassal

English

Alternative forms

* vasal (rare)

Noun

(wikipedia vassal) (en noun)
  • (historical) The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who keeps land of a superior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him, normally a lord of a manor; a feudatory; a feudal tenant.
  • A subject; a dependant; a servant; a slave.
  • * Milton
    • The vassals of his anger.

    Related terms

    * valet * varlet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Resembling a vassal; slavish; servile.

    • Verb

    (vassall)
  • To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
  • To subordinate to someone or something.

    • Anagrams

    * * ----

    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 .