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donkeywork

donkeywork \donkeywork\ n. hard menial routine work.

Syn: drudgery, grind, scut work.

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donkeywork

n. hard monotonous routine work [syn: drudgery, plodding, grind]

Usage examples of "donkeywork".

Turner had managed to get them up to a certain crude level of donkeywork: slicing wood, stirring glue, hauling heavy bundles of lumber.

You get you a crookback and maybe twenty bags of charcoal for all that heat and dirt and donkeywork, and twenty bags ain't going to buy a living.

When it was surprised, Taffy Three was eighty miles north of the entrance to Leyte Gulf, doing the donkeywork of amphibious warfare.