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Etymology

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From be- +‎ moil, from French mouiller to wet; but compare also Old English bimolen to soil, and English mole.

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bemoil (third-person singular simple present bemoils, present participle bemoiling, simple past and past participle bemoiled)

  1. (obsolete) To soil or dirty
    • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
      Tell thou the tale: –but hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard, in how miry a place; how she was bemoiled; [] .

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