Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
moil . - noun An obsolete form of
moil .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- See
moil , andmoile .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
moil . - noun Alternative form of
moile . - verb Alternative form of
moil .
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Examples
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Any idea what a good Portland moyle, charges for his services?
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Husband, husband, there is not one neighbour dwelling by us, but makes a mockerie of me, and tels me plainly, that I may be ashamed to drudge and moyle as I do; wondering not a little, how I am able to endure it; and thou returnest home with thy hands in thy hose, as if thou hadst no worke at all to do this day.
The Decameron 2004
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‘I’ll moyle him, and spoil him too, the false blackguard, to turn agin the family them as has made him!
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“Well, make much of him; I see he was never born to ride upon a moyle.” — _Every man out of his humour_, ii.,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And dost thy mind in dirty pleasures moyle, defile.
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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_Rysmoyle_, where _moyle_ seems to be Fr. _moile_, as written also in the Roll.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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_ I go immediately, directly, in a twinkling, with a thought: yet you think a man never does enough for you; I have been labouring in your business like any moyle.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665
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The premise begs a few questions: First, will Foreskin Man ever knockout a Jewish moyle for trying to perform a bris?
QueerClick 2010
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"Well, make much of him; I see he was never born to ride upon a moyle."
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The book opens with Ares doing his best moyle impression by taking his ax to the Man-Thing.
Evil Inc. 2009
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