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noun
1.
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
2.
a laborious task.
3.
Archaic. battle; strife; struggle.
verb (used without object)
4.
to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields.
5.
to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain.
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Toiler
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
verb (used with object)
6.
to accomplish or produce by toil.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English toile (noun), toilen (v.) < Anglo-French toil contention, toiler to contend < Latin tudiculāre to stir up, beat, verbal derivative of tudicula machine for crushing olives, equivalent to tudi- (stem of tundere to beat) + -cula -cule2
1250–1300; Middle English toile (noun), toilen (v.) < Anglo-French toil contention, toiler to contend < Latin tudiculāre to stir up, beat, verbal derivative of tudicula machine for crushing olives, equivalent to tudi- (stem of tundere to beat) + -cula -cule2
Related forms
toil·er, noun
un·toil·ing, adjective
Antonyms
1. indolence, sloth.
1. indolence, sloth.
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| toil1 (tɔɪl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | hard or exhausting work |
| 2. | an obsolete word for strife |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (intr) to labour |
| 4. | (intr) to progress with slow painful movements: to toil up a hill |
| 5. | archaic (tr) to achieve by toil |
| [C13: from Anglo-French toiler to struggle, from Old French toeillier to confuse, from Latin tudiculāre to stir, from tudicula machine for bruising olives, from tudes a hammer, from tundere to beat] | |
| 'toiler1 | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
toil
"net, snare," 1529, from M.Fr. toile "hunting net, cloth, web" (cf. toile d'araignée "cobweb"), from O.Fr. teile, from L. tela "web, woven stuff," related to texere "to weave" (see texture). Now used largely in plural (caught in the toils of the law).
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