moil
/mɔɪl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things.."
- "Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes."
- "Why for sluggards cark and moil?"
- "There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee."
- "A crowd of men and women moiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze."
- "I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil and moil of a collier's existence."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mollen, moillier, *molliō, meule, מוהל