schuften

Probably borrowed from Middle Low German schoft (“a quarter day's work”), related to German Schub (“batch”) (work that can be performed in one run). Unrelated to German Schuft (“scoundrel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃʊftn̩/

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• Hyphenation: schuf‧ten

schuften (weak, third-person singular present schuftet, past tense schuftete, past participle geschuftet, auxiliary haben)

1. (colloquial) to drudge, toil

   Synonyms: malochen, ackern, schaffen

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• Schufterei
• abschuften

• “schuften” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “schuften” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “schuften” in Duden online
• “schuften” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Friedrich Kluge (2002), “schuften”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 24th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN