单词 | moiler |
释义 | moilern. A person who moils or labours, a hard worker. Often paired with toiler. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > toiling or working hard swinker1340 travailera1382 sweatera1529 toiler1549 moiler1563 drudger1755 Stakhanovite1935 Stakhanovist1938 workaholic1947 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 37/1 As for your Cardinals, we shut them oute both of churches & cities. For that we see them, not..pyllers and vpholders of the church, but..moilers for mony & golde. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. i. 4 This Cain was a great toyler and moyler in the earth. 1662 G. Torriano 2nd Alphabet Proverbial Phrases 14/2 Esser più fachino che un Bergamasco, to be a greater druge than one of Bergamo, viz. a toyler and moyler; for commonly the inferior sort of that place, where e'er they go, they turn to be Porters or Hostlers. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South II. xix. 262 There might be toilers and moilers there in London, but she never saw them. 1890 F. W. O. Ward 'Twixt Kiss & Lip 21 The greedy coffers, wide To devour the gold, and not divide With the moiler in his muck. 1981 Guardian (Nexis) 20 Sept. 20 A world [sc. the Gulags] in which there is a rigid hierarchy dividing the ringers (the labour-dodging crooks), the gangers (the arbitrarily appointed foremen) and the moilers who do the manual work. 2000 Times (Nexis) 28 June (Features section) Baldly attributing the play [sc. Pericles] to the master-craftsman himself rather than to one of the toilers and moilers in the Shakespeare workshop. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1563 |
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