Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To confuse; perplex; distract; bewilder.
- To spend in labor.
- To labor hard; toil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. & Scot. To toil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive to
toil - verb intransitive to
muddle - verb transitive to
muddle - verb transitive to
pester - verb transitive to
perplex orbewilder - verb US, dialect, transitive
murder
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Examples
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When they met it was moider … or was that some other TV couple?
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When they met it was moider … or was that some other TV couple?
Stainless Steel Art (5) « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009
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Pirate Wench, yes ... the copay is very expensive ... it's moider.
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Apocalypse is telling these two numbskulls that he'll have to moider them..
Judging (Marvel’s April) Books By Their Covers | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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"Let's moider da creep, Joey," the biggest one said, pulling a revolver out of his sleeve.
Last Drop Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren 1983
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Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slipslop conversation of a pack of women. '
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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Ony outa de cagebroke outfree to moider her, see?
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Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slipslop conversation of a pack of women. '
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902
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She was here to lunching a few days before the moider, an 'she says she always sat at the table in the dining room to eat, after Miss Van Allen got through.
Vicky Van Carolyn Wells 1902
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Arriving at our home, after making the drive from my grandparents ', the first words out of his mouth were invariably, "The traffic was moider."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Joel Epstein 2010
reesetee commented on the word moider
From WWFTD:
(origin uncertain)
Irish & Brit. dial. (also moither, etc.)
(tv) 1) to perplex, bewilder 2) to distract, bother
(iv) 1) to talk incoherently: be delirious
2) to wander about aimlessly or confusedly
(not to be confused with U.S. vernacular for murder).
September 29, 2009