moil

Meaning

Verb

1. To toil, to work hard.
2. (intransitive) To churn continually; to swirl.
3. (UK, transitive) To defile or dirty.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Hard work.
2. (countable, uncountable) Confusion, turmoil.
3. (countable, uncountable) A spot; a defilement.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) 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

Translations

κοπιάζω

κόπος

agitar

تعب

اِشْتغل

agitar

عمِل

esforç

mullar

Anstrengung

Arbeit

Ausübung

Beanspruchung

Einsatz

batre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mɔɪl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: 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”).