Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drudgery \Drudg"er*y\, n.
   The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor;
   ignoble or slavish toil.

         The drudgery of penning definitions.     --Macaulay.

         Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery
         and with out sorrow.                     --Locke.

   Syn: See {Toll}.

Source : WordNet®

drudgery
     n : hard monotonous routine work [syn: {plodding}, {grind}, {donkeywork}]