Scutwork

Alternative forms

• scut work

Origin

Combination of scut (a worthless person) and work

Full definition of scutwork

Noun

1. 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 RightEveryone on a team must pull their fair share of scutwork if the team is to succeed.
• 2003, Julia Spencer-Fleming, In the Bleak MidwinterHard to keep that edge of horror over the death of another human being when it was surrounded by so much tedious scutwork.