toyle

English

Verb

toyle (third-person singular simple present toyles, present participle toyling, simple past and past participle toyled)

1. Obsolete form of toil.

Noun

toyle (plural toyles)

1. Obsolete form of toil.

Anagrams

• Elyot, Otley, oylet

Middle English

Alternative forms

• toile

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman toile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtui̯l(ə)/, /ˈtɔi̯l(ə)/

Noun

toyle

1. A fight; strife (deadly discord between two parties)

Descendants

• English: toil
• Scots: tuilyie

References

• “toil(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-04.