noun

a person made to do hard menial or dull work.

I felt like a household drudge

menial,menial worker,slave,galley slave,toiler,lackey,servant,labourer,hack,worker,maid/man of all work,houseboy,factotum,gofer,running dog,runner,peon,skivvy,dogsbody,charwoman,charlady,char,scullion,servitor

verb

do hard menial work.

her husband was drudging in the smoke of London