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moider, v. dial.|ˈmɔɪdə(r)|
Also 7– moyder, moidher, 8 moyther, 9 moither, moidur, -ar, mither, myther, meyther, meither.
[Of obscure origin; possibly related to muddle v.]
1. trans. ‘To confuse, perplex, bewilder; to worry, bother, fatigue’ (E.D.D.). Chiefly pass. and refl. Also in pass., to be overcome or stupefied with heat.
1674Ray N.C. Words 33 Welly Moyder'd: almost Distracted. Cheshire. 1705[T. Walker] Wit of a Woman iii. 29, I've been strangely moyder'd e're sin 'bout this same News oth' French King. I conno believe 'tis true. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Moider, to puzzle, perplex. N. Ibid., Moytherd, confounded, tired out. Glouc. 1794J. Williams Crying Epistle, etc. 20 Sure Common Sense is moider'd. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 349 One whose intellects are rendered useless, by being in the habit of taking spirituous liquors to excess, is said to be moidert. 1848Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton vi. I. 90 Don't mither your mammy for bread, here's a chap as has got some for you. 1860Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. iii. viii, Scolding her for ‘moithering’ herself and going about all day without changing her cap. 1863Mrs. Gaskell Sylvia's L. II. ix. 156 She's fairly moithered wi' heat an' noise. 1880R. Broughton Sec. Th. ii. v, Moidering his brain with temperance meetings,..temperance papers, and such trash. 1900M. O'Neill Songs Glens Antrim 4 This livin' air is moithered wi' the bummin' o' the bees.
b. (See quots.)
1847Halliwell, Mither, to muffle up; to smother; to encumber. Northampt. 1888Sheffield Gloss. s.v., A Derbyshire woman said that a child was ‘mythered up in clothing’ when it was too much wrapped up.
2. intr. ‘To talk incoherently or foolishly; to be delirious, to wander or ramble in one's mind’; also, ‘to wander about aimlessly or confusedly’ (E.D.D.).
1839Hereford. Gloss., Moither,..to be weak in mind. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk., Moither, mither,..to talk incoherently—to ramble, as in feverish sleep, or delirium. Com. ‘I thought the poor child wuz gwein to 'ave a faiver, fur 'er burnt like a coal, an' moithered all night’.
3. intr. ‘To labour very hard’ (Halliwell). Also quasi-trans. with away.
1828[Carr] Craven Gloss. I. 328 Moider,..to labour hard, to toil. 1846Brockett N.C. Words. 18..Cornh. Mag. (Ogilvie 1882), She lived only to scrape and hoard, moidering away her loveless life in the futile energies and sordid aims of a miser's wretched pleasure.
Hence ˈmoidered ppl. a., confused, stupefied; ˈmoidering ppl. a., stupefying, bewildering.
1674Moidered [cf. moider v.]. 1796Mary Lamb Let. to Coleridge 17 Oct. in Final Mem. C. Lamb ii. 205 Polly, what are those poor crazy moythered brains of yours thinking of always? 1839Hereford. Gloss., Moithering or Moithered, confused, silly; also lightheaded or delirious. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 163 After midday it would be difficult..to find a chief without the thick voice,..and the moidered manners, which prove that he is either drinking or drunk. 1896J. K. Snowden Web of old Weaver vii. (1897) 78 It was out of these moidering talks with my mother that I gathered nerve enough [etc.]. a1894J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolm. (1899) 350 Moidart, stupid. |