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English
Etymology
From drudge + -erie.
Noun
drudgerie (plural drudgeries)
- Obsolete spelling of drudgery.
1878, Thomas Tusser, “A Comparison betweene Champion Countrie and Seuerall”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. , London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., , →OCLC; republished as W Payne, Sidney J Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. , London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., , 1878, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 141:What laier much better then there, / or cheaper (thereon to doo well?) / What drudgerie more any where / lesse good thereof where can ye tell? / What gotten by Sommer is seene: / in Winter is eaten vp cleene.
1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash, The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: , London: Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, , →OCLC, Act IV, signature E3, recto:I may not dure this female drudgerie, / To ſea Æneas, finde out Italy.
1652, “A Short Advertisement to the Reader”, in Eugenius Philalethes [i.e., Thomas Vaughan], transl., The Fame and Confession of the Fraternity of the R: C: Commonly, of the Rosie Cross. , London: J M for Giles Calvert, , →OCLC, page 58:Here he met with a Drudgerie almoſt invincible, and if we add the Task to the Time, it is enough to make a Man old.