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- verb Present participle of
moither .
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Examples
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Having declared her intention of staying till the master could get about again, "wage or no wage," she had found a certain recompense in keeping a strong hand over her mistress, scolding her for "moithering" herself, and going about all day without changing her cap, and looking as if she was "mushed."
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849
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Having declared her intention of staying till the master could get about again, wage or no wage, she had found a certain recompense in keeping a strong hand over her mistress, scolding her for moithering herself, and going about all day without changing her cap, and looking as if she was mushed.
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-- knowin 'as I do that what with the moithering old folks and the maupsing young ones, your' ands is always full.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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-- knowin 'as I do that what with the moithering old folks and the maupsing young ones, your' ands is always full.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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-- knowin 'as I do that what with the moithering old folks and the maupsing young ones, your' ands is always full.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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