单词 | moiled |
释义 | moiledadj.1 1. Exhausted, worn out with labour and toil. Also: harassed. Now chiefly British regional. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 English regional (western), Welsh English, and Irish English. Of cattle, sheep, etc.: without horns. ΚΠ 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). < adj.11618adj.21839 |
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