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noun
- Hard work.
- Confusion, turmoil.
- An unwanted rim of glass left after blow molding in glassblowing.
verb (moils, moiling, moiled)
- To toil, to work hard.
- I do not like to moil.
- To churn continually.
Etymology: From Middle English 'mollen', 'to soften by wetting', from Old French 'moillier' with the same meaning, from Latin 'mollia panis', 'the soft part of bread', from 'mollis', 'soft'; from the Proto-Indo-European root 'mel-', 'soft'. Sense 3 of the noun is derived from the Hebrew word 'mohel' (ritual circumciser) and refers to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.
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