drudgy vs painful

drudgy

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

noun
  • Drudgery; labour. 

painful

adj
  • Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious. 

  • Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person). 

  • Very bad, poor. 

  • Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental. 

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