drudgy vs laborious

drudgy

adj
  • Suggestive of drudgery; being excessively hard or requiring excessive effort. 

noun
  • Drudgery; labour. 

laborious

adj
  • Requiring much physical effort; toilsome. 

  • Mentally difficult; painstaking. 

  • Industrious. 

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