Suggestive of drudgery; being excessively hard or requiring excessive effort.
We can find it nowhere so clearly as in these old journals, this collection of local historical material that makes such drudgy work to collect and catalog.1922, American Library Association, Bulletin of the American Library Association: Volume 16:
Horses are kept only for riding, whilst bullocks are yoked in the plough and cart, perform every kind of domestic drudgey, and endure the heat better than any other animal they have got [...]1824, William Huggins, Sketches in India: