moither

English

Etymology

See moider (“to toil, muddle, pester”)

Verb

moither (third-person singular simple present moithers, present participle moithering, simple past and past participle moithered)

1. (Yorkshire, dialect) to bother or harass
2. (UK, dialect) To toil; to labour.
3. To perplex; to confuse.
   • 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

     She always had what her mother, who does not seem greatly to have cared for her, called “moithered” brains

References

“moither”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• mohrite, mothier, thermoi, thiomer