scutwork
nounEtymology From scut + work; see scut (“contemptible person”).
1
Tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project.
- Everyone on a team must pull their fair share of scutwork if the team is to succeed.2000, Harvey Robbins, Michael Finley, The New Why Teams Don't Work: What Goes Wrong and How to Make It Right:
- Hard to keep that edge of horror over the death of another human being when it was surrounded by so much tedious scutwork.2003, Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak Midwinter: