Wiktionary
scut work
alt. Distasteful tasks. n. Distasteful tasks.
WordNet
scut work
n. trivial unrewarding tedious dirty and disagreeable chores; "the hospital hired him to do scut work" [syn: shitwork]
Usage examples of "scut work".
In a private hospital, your first year would consist of routine scut work.
It was scut work but it got us out of scutwork for the Family that was a lot more boring.
It is scut work, but he has nothing else to do, and one of the good things about this particular kind of scut work is that it acquaints you with every little detail of the mathematics.
It was the worst sort of scut work, and he couldn't even go to his father for advice.
Walter Macy, he's the assistant pastor at the Tabernacle and he handles a lot of scut work.