English-Thai Dictionary

moil

N งาน เหนื่อยยาก  งานหนัก  ngan-nuai-yak

 

moiler

N ผู้ทำงาน เหนื่อยยาก  phu-tam-ngan-nuai-yak

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOIL

v.t.To daub; to make dirty. [Little used. ] 1. To weary. [See the next word. ]

 

MOIL

v.i.[Gr. labor, combat; to strive, to fight; L. molior, and miles.] To labor; to toil; to work with painful efforts. Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.

 

MOIL

n.A spot. [Not in use. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MOIL

Moil, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Moiling.] Etym: [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F. mouller, fr. (assumed ) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See Mollify. ]

 

Defn: To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou. .. doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.

 

MOIL

Moil, v. i. Etym: [From Moil to daub; prob. from the idea of struggling through the wet. ]

 

Defn: To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge. Moil not too much under ground. Bacon. Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes. Dryden.

 

MOIL

MOIL Moil, n.

 

Defn: A spot; a defilement. The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.

 

MOILE

Moile, n. Etym: [F. mule a slipper. ]

 

Defn: A kind of high shoe anciently worn. [Written also moyle. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

moil

moil |moil mɔɪl | ▶verb [ no obj. ] work hard: men who moiled for gold. • [ with adverbial ] move around in confusion or agitation: a crowd of men and women moiled in the smoky haze. ▶noun hard work; drudgery. • turmoil; confusion: the moil of his intimate thoughts. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘moisten or bedaub ’): from Old French moillier ‘paddle in mud, moisten, ’ based on Latin mollis ‘soft. ’ The sense ‘work ’ dates from the mid 16th cent. , often in the phrase toil and moil .

 

Oxford Dictionary

moil

moil |mɔɪl | archaic, dialect, or N. Amer. ▶verb [ no obj. ] 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 [ mass noun ] 1 hard work; drudgery. 2 turmoil; confusion: the moil of his intimate thoughts. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘moisten or bedaub ’): from Old French moillier ‘paddle in mud, moisten ’, based on Latin mollis ‘soft ’. The sense ‘work ’ dates from the mid 16th cent. , often in the phrase toil and moil .