moil

Senso (English)

Verb

1. To toil, to work hard.
2. To churn continually; to swirl.
3. To defile or dirty.

Noun

1. Hard work.
2. Confusion, turmoil.
3. A spot; a defilement.

Noun

1. The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
2. The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
3. The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.

Synonyms

toil

labor

labour

drudge

slur

smear

smirch

boil

roil

churn

travail

stain

grind

smudge

soil

smut

speck

speckle

splotch

spot

blemish

sully

blot

trouble

dig

fag

besmirch

humidify

importunity

inconvenience

infestation

macula

mandrel

mattock

moisten

molestation

muddle

nuisance

pains

patch

peeve

pick

⛏️

pickaxe

pick-axe

striving

struggle

suffering

taint

turmoil

vexation

wash

🧽

work

beaver away

donkeywork

nisus

fatigue

peg away

gad picker

pick mattock

mattock hoe

annoyance

moyle

beaver

🦫

bedew

bedraggle

befoul

begrime

besmear

bespatter

blacken

blotch

blur

bother

care

confusion

dampen

daub

dirty

drizzle

drudgery

effort

endeavor

exertion

foul

grime

grub

hack

harassment

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/mɔɪl/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: mollen

In summary

From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).