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Noun: donkeywork  'dón-kee,wurk
Usage: Brit, informal
  1. Hard monotonous routine work
    "he spent his life in tiresome donkeywork";
    - drudgery, plodding, grind

Derived forms: donkeyworks

Type of: labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], toil