scut work

1. 1.

   trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores

   “the hospital hired him to do scut work”

   Synonymsshitwork

   Broaderjob

Questions about scut work

What does scut work mean?

scut work means "trivial, unrewarding, tedious, dirty, and disagreeable chores".

What is another word for scut work?

Close synonyms include shitwork. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is scut work a common word?

scut work is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.