droil

English

Etymology

From Dutch druil (“sluggard”). Compare droll.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɹɔɪl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Noun

droil (countable and uncountable, plural droils)

(obsolete) A drudge.
- c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
  Then I begin to rave at my stars' bitterness, / To see how many muckhills plac'd above me; / Peasants and droils, caroches full of dunghills
(obsolete) Mean labour; toil.

Verb

droil (third-person singular simple present droils, present participle droiling, simple past and past participle droiled)

To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “droil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

lorid

Irish

Noun

droil

vocative/genitive singular of drol

Mutation

Mutated forms of *droil*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
droil	dhroil	ndroil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.