drudge vs menial

drudge

noun
  • Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. 

  • A person who works in a low servile job. 

verb
  • To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. 

menial

noun
  • A servant, especially a domestic servant. 

  • A person who has a subservient nature. 

adj
  • Of or relating to unskilled work. 

  • Servile; low; mean. 

  • Of or relating to work normally performed by a servant. 

How often have the words drudge and menial occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )