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What is scutwork?

What is scutwork? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Tasks that are tedious and monotonous or trivial and menial, usually inherent in the operations of a larger project.
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As a humble assistant to the world-renowned scientific explorer Professor Rosse, Emery gets all of the scutwork and none of the glory.
Everyone on a team must pull their fair share of scutwork if the team is to succeed.
We seem to like this simple idea that leadership is somehow a noble enterprise, leaving the scutwork of actually getting things done to those control-freak managers.
Fourth, medical residents have been limited to 80-hour weeks so now they can't do all the scutwork themselves anymore.
A very persistent guy who doesn't kowtow and who doesn't like to do scutwork.
Ms. Ripa had better be prepared for lots of scutwork next July Fourth, because now she's even a bigger star, with her name on the show title yet.

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