Moil

English

Verb

Moil (third-person singular simple present Moils, present participle Moiling, simple past and past participle Moiled)

1. To toil, to work hard.
2. To churn continually.

Noun

Moil (countable and uncountable; plural Moils)

1. Hard work.
2. Confusion, turmoil.
3. (glassblowing) An unwanted rim of glass left after blow molding.

Thesaurus

agitation, be turbulent, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha, bubble, bustle, churn, clamor, commotion, conturbation, dig, dirty work, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, donkeywork, drive, drudge, drudgery, ebullition, embroilment, employment, excitement, fag, fatigue, ferment, fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away, handiwork, handwork, hubbub, hurly-burly, industry, inquietude, jitters, jumpiness, labor, lather, lick, lick of work, maelstrom, malaise, manual labor, mill, mill around, nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, peg, peg away, perturbation, plod, plug, plug along, plug away, plugging, pound away, rat race, restlessness, roil, rout, row, ruction, scut work, seethe, seething, simmer, slavery, slog, slogging, smolder, spadework, stir, strain, strive, stroke, stroke of work, sweat, swirl, task, tiresome work, to-do, toil, travail, treadmill, trepidation, trepidity, tug, tumult, tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease, unrest, uproar, upset, wade through, work, work away

Etymology

From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Latin molla panis (“soft part of bread”), from mollis (“soft”); from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'. Sense 3 of the noun is derived from the Hebrew word 'mohel' (ritual circumciser) and refers to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

Synonyms

• labour, labor
• toil
• work

Anagrams

• limo, Milo, milo

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

Moil m.

1. Genitive of mol.