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单词 moiled
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moiledadj.1

Brit. /mɔɪld/, U.S. /mɔɪld/
Forms: see moil v. and -ed suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moil v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < moil v. + -ed suffix1.
1. Exhausted, worn out with labour and toil. Also: harassed. Now chiefly British regional.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > esp. through labour
forswunka1250
forwroughtc1400
forlaboured1483
broken1490
forespent1563
fortoiled1567
toiled1574
overtoiled?1577
over-laboured1579
back-broken1603
moiled1618
swinked1637
overwrought1648
overtaxed1650
toil-worn1752
used up1823
overworked1830
beat1832
dead-beaten1854
1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden xiv. 50 Consider the age of other living creatures. The Horse and moiled Oxe wrought to an vntimely death, yet double the time of their increase.
1793 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 1084 Moiled, troubled, fatigued. Sedgemoor.
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 2) 136 The rough rude ploughman,..While moil'd and sweating, by some pasture's side.
1895 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (ed. 2) To be fatigued or perplexed in body or mind is to be moiled.
1992 J. Torrington Swing Hammer Swing! xxvi. 227 This [whisky] he poured into his tea then, no doubt respectful of his moiled headgear [i.e. his head], quietly paddled a teaspoon in the turbid stuff.
2. Made dirty or foul; soiled. Chiefly British regional before 20th cent.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective]
solc1200
soileda1250
suddly1488
sullied1571
smirched1600
besmircheda1616
smutted1622
moiled1632
soily1677
smutched1785
besoiled1834
smirchy1889
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) Moyled, Souillé.
1787 J. F. Bryant Verses 33 Rude mass of earth, from which with moiled hands..the brittle tubes [sc. of pipe-clay] I form.
1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 68 Moiled, dirty with wet mud; stuck in the mud.
1882 E. L. Chamberlain Gloss. W. Worcs. Words 20 Moiled, soiled; dirty.
1992 Hollywood Reporter (Nexis) 25 Jan. Cinematographer Tom Sigel's moiled, smudgy hues.
1998 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 74/1 Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron..was a godless harvest of heads, limbs, and other appendages, its moiled landscape recalling James Jones's observation ‘Armies create their own mud.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

moiledadj.2

Brit. /mɔɪld/, U.S. /mɔɪld/, Irish English /mɒɪld/, Welsh English /ˈmɔijəld/
Forms: English regional (western) 1800s– moiled, 1800s– moilled, 1800s– moillet, 1800s– mwoilled; Welsh English 1900s– moiled; Irish English 1800s– moiled.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: moil n.3, -ed suffix2.
Etymology: Apparently < moil n.3 + -ed suffix2. Compare slightly earlier mulled adj.2
English regional (western), Welsh English, and Irish English.
Of cattle, sheep, etc.: without horns.
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1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 68 ‘A moiled sheep’ is a sheep without horns.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Moilled My pretty mwoilled 'eifer.
a1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) IV. 143/1 A moil'd cow.
1986 Guardian 15 Mar. 2/8 The farm's 240 head of livestock..include nine rare Irish moiled cattle, of which there are believed to be only 35 in the world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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