drudgerie

English

Etymology

From drudge +‎ -erie.

Noun

drudgerie (plural drudgeries)

1. Obsolete spelling of drudgery.
   • 1580, Thomas Tusser, “A Comparison betweene Champion Countrie and Seuerall”, in Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie: […], London: […] Henrie Denham [beeing the assigne of William Seres] […], →OCLC, stanza 4:

     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[e], 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[ohn] M[acock] 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.