drudge vs plodder

drudge

noun
  • A person who works in a low servile job. 

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

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

plodder

noun
  • A person who works slowly, making a great effort with little result; a person who studies laboriously. 

  • One who plods. 

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