Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| backbreaker | a strenuous task. |
| busywork | active but valueless work. |
| darg | a day's labour. |
| daytale | reckoning by the day, esp of work or wages. |
| daywork | work done during the day. |
| dayworker | one who does daywork. |
| dogsbody | one whose work is routine and boring, a drudge; (verb) to act as a dogsbody. |
| droil | (Obs.) to drudge. |
| drudge | someone who does heavy monotonous work; (verb) to do hard, menial, or tedious work. |
| drudger | one who drudges. |
| drudgery | hard, menial, or tedious work. |
| drudgingly | (Adv.) DRUDGING. |
| drudgism | the work of a drudge. |
| fag | a tiresome task; (offensive slang) a homosexual (verb) to work, or be worked, hard |
| forswink | (Obs.) to exhaust by labour. |
| forswonck | (Spenser) overworked. |
| forswunk | (Spenser) overworked. |
| labor | (US) toil, hard work; (verb) to work, toil. |
| laboredly | (Adv.) LABORED. |
| laboringly | (Adv.) LABORING. |
| laborious | full of labour. |
| laboriously | (Adv.) LABORIOUS, full of labour. |
| laborsome | requiring hard work. |
| labour | toil, hard work; (verb) to work, toil. |
| labouredly | (Adv.) LABOURED. |
| labourer | one who labours. |
| labouringly | (Adv.) LABOURING. |
| laboursaving | reducing (human) effort, hard work, or labour. |
| laboursome | (Shakesp.) laborious. |
| mislabour | to labour wrongly. |
| moil | to drudge. |
| moiler | one who moils, drudges. |
| moilingly | (Adv.) MOILING, drudging. |
| operose | laborious, tedious. |
| operosely | (Adv.) OPEROSE, laborious, tedious. |
| operosity | laboriousness. |
| ouvrage | (Fr.) work. |
| ouvrier | (Fr.) a (male) manual or industrial worker. |
| ouvriere | (Fr.) a (female) manual or industrial worker. |
| overlabor | to cause to labor excessively; to overwork. |
| overlabour | (Arch.) to labour excessively. |
| overtask | to task too heavily. |
| overtoil | to overwork. |
| overworn | worn out or subdued by toil. |
| penpushing | boring paperwork involving much writing. |
| scutwork | menial or dull work. |
| shapeup | a method of selecting workers esp dockers for a single day's work from an assembly gathered for the purpose. |
| swink | (Arch.) to toil. |
| swinker | one who swinks. |
| tasker | one who imposes a task. |
| toil | hard work; (verb) to work strenuously. |
| toiler | one that toils. |
| toilful | producing or involving much toil; laborious. |
| toilfully | (Adv.) TOILFUL, producing or involving much toil. |
| toilfulness | the state of being toilful. |
| toilless | free from toil. |
| toilsome | demanding much exertion. |
| toilsomely | (Adv.) TOILSOME, demanding much exertion. |
| toilsomeness | the state of being toilsome. |
| toylesome | (Spenser) toilsome. |
| toylsom | (Spenser) toilsome. |
| travail | painfully difficult work; (verb) to toil. |
| untoiling | not toiling. |
| wark | (Scots) to work. |
| work | physical or mental effort directed towards making or achieving something; (verb) to exert one's powers of body or mind for some purpose. |
| worksome | (Carlyle) industrious. |
| yacker | (Aborig.) hard work, toil. |
| yakka | (Aborig.) hard work, toil. |
| yakker | (Aborig.) hard work, toil. |