bemoil
English edit
Etymology edit
be- + moil, from French mouiller to wet; but compare also Old English bimolen to soil, and English mole.
Verb edit
bemoil (third-person singular simple present bemoils, present participle bemoiling, simple past and past participle bemoiled)
- (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; […] .
References edit
- “bemoil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.