Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See moider.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To toil; to labor.
  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. To perplex; to confuse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Yorkshire (dialect) to bother or harass
  • verb UK, dialect To toil; to labour.

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Examples

  • I was in that pain, sir, and I didn't want to moither my shipmets no more'n you, so I closes my teeth.

    A Dream of the North Sea James Runciman 1871

  • But mark my words; I were wed wi 'brass buttons, and brass buttons a'll wear to my death, an' if they moither me about it, a'll wear brass buttons i 'my coffin!'

    Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • But mark my words; I were wed wi 'brass buttons, and brass buttons a'll wear to my death, an' if they moither me about it, a'll wear brass buttons i 'my coffin!'

    Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Okey din daw kina Tsong Joey at Rufa Mae ang role bilang father and moither nina Rhian at Elmo dahil hindi naman basta magulang lang sila ng dalawang teenager, kundi bida pa rin sila sa bagong fantasy-sitcom ng Siyete.

    Home 2010

  • A coil of cord, a colleen coy, a blush on a bush turned first man’s laughter into wailful moither.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • "Oh! you're over kind to moither yourself about me, sir.

    A Dream of the North Sea James Runciman 1871

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  • His legs swelled large

    as mill-posts, whilst his torso

    was as a skin packet of bones -

    and upon bleached seal bones he played

    hour after hour in uncanny

    tattoo as to harmonise

    with a wordless mindless dirge

    as he moithered, moithered, moithered,

    weird, xysterical airs,

    yea, even unto the end.

    - Peter Reading, Ukulele Music, 1985

    May 30, 2009