roiledadj.
/rɔɪld/, U.S. /rɔɪld/ 1.
a. Of the mind, emotions, etc.: stirred up, disturbed; confused.In quot. 1611 with punning allusion to royal.
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the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > intensified
enrageda1586
raging1591
roiled1611
extended1699
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > full of sediment
fata1387
puddled1559
roiled1611
roil1658
scuddy1797
riley1805
roily1823
riled1830
1611 J. Davies Scourge Folly 231 Yet Aiax (I confesse) was too supreme For Subiect of my-his wit royalld Reame, Exposed to the rancor of the rude, And wasted by the witlesse Multitude.
1622 S. Ward Life of Faith in Death 112 The speckled phantasies, darke obliuion, royled, soyled affections.
1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xvii. clxviii. 327 That which bubbles from a royled Minde.
1703 J. Shirley tr. J. Fernández Honour of Chivalry I. 182 With often falling and rising he was so royled, that at length he arrived at the Chair where the Emperor sate, which somewhat eased him.
1744 T. Prince Sovereign God acknowledged & Blessed 15 We come to have such high Apprehensions of Him, as to silence our complaining Thoughts and..our roiled Passions.
1991 K. O'N. Gear People of Fire vi. 86 Confused, Sage Root tried to clear her roiled mind.
2002 B. Eisler Rain Fall iii. 46 Midori's music had settled my roiled emotions, as jazz always does.
b. U.S. Of a person: angry, annoyed.Now largely superseded by riled adj. 1.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective]
ofgrameda1200
agrameda1300
irk1303
overthoughta1325
aggrievedc1330
annoyedc1330
noyfula1387
teena1400
vexed?c1425
annoyousa1450
angry1485
noyeda1500
irked1513
engrieved1591
exulceratec1592
galled1601
incommodate1622
exulcerated1640
ruffled1659
uncommoded1683
chagrin1706
exacerbated1727
chagrineda1754
vexatious1756
discommoded1773
pipped1797
roiled1818
riled1825
outraged1836
put-out1836
vex1843
niggled1878
narked1888
hacked1892
wired1904
peeved1908
1818 H. B. Fearon Sketches Amer. iii. 97 We were mightily roiled (vexed) when they [sc. roads] were first cut, and we always spoiled them in the night.
1850 S. Judd Richard Edney & Governor's Family xxvi. 284 Munk did not say this in his usual, that is, a pleasant way, but in an irritated way; he was roiled.
1874 B. Newton in Hist. & Proc. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Assoc. (1890) I. x. 257 I will not add what the tradition represents the Major as saying, for I think he was roiled when he said it.
1929 Sun (Baltimore) 12 June 1/1 It will be seen when the Senator gets roiled he can go the paces with the next one among the friends of the people.
1975 in W. Viereck Lexikalische Ergebnisse des Lowman-Survey I. iv. 279 If he lost his temper, you say he got..roiled.
2. Chiefly U.S. Esp. of water: made turbid, muddy (by being stirred up with sediment). Also in extended use: turbulent. Also roiled up.
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1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 2 Sathan is now in his passions, hee feeles his passion approaching; he loves to fish in royled waters.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 179 How roiled the water looks.
1887 D. Craft in Jrnls. Mil. Exped. Maj.-Gen. John Sullivan 1779 367 Their tracks were fresh on the path, and the water was roiled through which they passed.
1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath x. 123 Your Pa's pa, he quoted Scripture all the time. He got it all roiled up, too.
1983 L. Niven Integral Trees (1984) i. 7 Nothing but blue-tinged white sky split by the white line of the Smoke Ring, and on that line, a roiled knot.
2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Sept. (Central ed.) b3/6 This roiled current also can occur simply because a person has twisting arteries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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