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moil

[ moil ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to work hard; drudge.
  2. to whirl or churn ceaselessly; twist; eddy.


verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to wet or smear.

noun

  1. hard work or drudgery.
  2. confusion, turmoil, or trouble.
  3. Glassmaking. a superfluous piece of glass formed during blowing and removed in the finishing operation.
  4. Mining. a short hand tool with a polygonal point, used for breaking or prying out rock.

moil

/ mɔɪl /

verb

  1. to moisten or soil or become moist, soiled, etc
  2. intr to toil or drudge (esp in the phrase toil and moil )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. toil; drudgery
  2. confusion; turmoil
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈmoiler, noun
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Other Words From

  • moiler noun
  • moiling·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.

The auld moil was nane so weel furnished i' the heid, but bairnies and beasts were unco' fond o' 'im.

Would he come clean through the moil, winning honor and his place among men?

He has no taste for the toil and moil of money-getting,—a refined, studious, thoughtful young man.

Ginet-moils, gennet-moil, a kind of apple ripe before others.

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