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