thoil
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of thole, from Middle English tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian (“to bear; endure”). Cognate with Scots thoil. More at thole.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɔɪl
Verb[edit]
thoil (third-person singular simple present thoils, present participle thoiling, simple past and past participle thoiled)
- (Yorkshire, transitive) To be able to justify the expense of.
- I loved those red shoes but I couldn't thoil it in addition to the new dress I'd bought.
- 1996, Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society:
- But yon poor widder-woman, strugglin' along on a bit of a pension, 'ad nowt left but two coppers - but sh' thoiled it, an' put it in, all t' same!
Anagrams[edit]
Irish[edit]
Noun[edit]
thoil
- Lenited form of toil.
Old Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
thoil
- Lenited form of toil.
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