"thoil" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: thoils [present, singular, third-person], thoiling [participle, present], thoiled [participle, past], thoiled [past]
Rhymes: -ɔɪl Etymology: Variant of thole, from Middle English tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian (“to bear; endure”). Cognate with Scots thoil. More at thole. Etymology templates: {{m|en|thole}} thole, {{inh|en|enm|tholen}} Middle English tholen, {{m|enm|tholien}} tholien, {{inh|en|ang|þolian||to bear; endure}} Old English þolian (“to bear; endure”), {{cog|sco|thoil}} Scots thoil, {{l|en|thole}} thole Head templates: {{en-verb}} thoil (third-person singular simple present thoils, present participle thoiling, simple past and past participle thoiled)
  1. (Yorkshire, transitive) To be able to justify the expense of. Tags: Yorkshire, transitive
    Sense id: en-thoil-en-verb-2tbtWn9z Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Yorkshire English

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for thoil meaning in English (2.1kB)

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