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- Dictionarymoil/mɔɪl/
verb
- 1. work hard: "men who moiled for gold"
- 2. move around in confusion or agitation: "a crowd of men and women moiled in the smoky haze"
noun
- 1. hard work; drudgery: "this night his weekly moil is at an end"
- 2. turmoil; confusion: "the moil of his intimate thoughts"
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noun. 1. : hard work : drudgery. 2. : confusion, turmoil. Did you know? Moil may mean "to work hard" but its origins are the opposite of hard; it ultimately derives from Latin mollis, meaning "soft." (Other English derivatives of mollis are emollient, mollify, and mollusk .)
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.
1. to moisten or soil or become moist, soiled, etc. 2. (intransitive) to toil or drudge (esp in the phrase toil and moil) noun. 3. toil; drudgery. 4. confusion; turmoil.
Definitions of moil. verb. work hard. synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, toil, travail. see more. verb. be agitated. synonyms: boil, churn, roil. see more.
1. To work hard; toil: men who moil in mines. 2. To churn about continuously: clouds moiling in the wind. n. 1. Hard work; toil. 2. Confusion; turmoil: "the dogs shooting past her in a moil of fur and flashing feet" (T.C. Boyle).
The earliest known use of the noun moil is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for moil is from 1611, in the writing of John Davies, poet and writing-master. It is also recorded as a verb from the Middle English period (1150—1500).
A complete guide to the word "MOIL": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
