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moil
[ moil ]
verb (used with object)
- Archaic. to wet or smear.
noun
- hard work or drudgery.
- confusion, turmoil, or trouble.
- Glassmaking. a superfluous piece of glass formed during blowing and removed in the finishing operation.
- Mining. a short hand tool with a polygonal point, used for breaking or prying out rock.
moil
/ mɔɪl /
verb
- to moisten or soil or become moist, soiled, etc
- intr to toil or drudge (esp in the phrase toil and moil )
noun
- toil; drudgery
- confusion; turmoil
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Derived Forms
- ˈmoiler, noun
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Other Words From
- moiler noun
- moiling·ly adverb
- un·moiled adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of moil1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English mollen, mulllen, “to make or get wet and muddy,” from Middle French moillier, from unrecorded Vulgar Latin molliāre, derivative of Latin mollis “soft”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of moil1
C14 (to moisten; later: to work hard in unpleasantly wet conditions) from Old French moillier, ultimately from Latin mollis soft
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Example Sentences
Others toil and moil all their lives long—and the very dogs are not pitiful in our days, as they were in the days of Lazarus.
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The auld moil was nane so weel furnished i' the heid, but bairnies and beasts were unco' fond o' 'im.
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Would he come clean through the moil, winning honor and his place among men?
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He has no taste for the toil and moil of money-getting,—a refined, studious, thoughtful young man.
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Ginet-moils, gennet-moil, a kind of apple ripe before others.
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