Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

droil

/dɹɔɪl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: droil
IPA: /dɹɔɪl/

6

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A drudge; a minion or servile worker.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

noun

hard work; toil or drudgery.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

verb

To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.

Example Sentences

"Then I begin to rave at my stars' bitterness, / To see how many muckhills plac'd above me; / Peasants and droils, caroches full of dunghills"
"Two homely droils were authors of my death"
"When the burden of daytime droil is o'er"

Etymology

From Dutch druil (“sluggard”). Compare droll.

Origin

Source language: Dutch

Word Breakdown

Root: druil

Usage

Inflected Forms

droils (plural) droils (present, singular) droiling (participle, present) droiled (participle, past) droiled (past)

Rhymes With

oil soil boil spoil foil coil boyle recoil toil flemish coil hoyle foyle

Questions

How do you pronounce droil?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɹɔɪl/.
What does droil mean?: A drudge; a minion or servile worker.
Where does droil come from?: It is traced to Dutch.

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