drudge
noun
a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
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"Well, we will drudge together, I suppose," he continued in response to Nekhludoff's affirmative answer.
From The Awakening The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Count