moisev.
/mɔɪz/, U.S. /mɔɪz/ English regional (East Anglian).
intransitive. To thrive; to improve, recover. Now rare.
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1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 384 To Moys, to thrive; spoken of crops and stock: also in a general sense; as, ‘he muddles on but does not moys’.
1791 Gentleman's Mag. 61 ii. 1022 It is a common saying among the common people of this place [sc. Norwich] when a person does not seem to recruit after a fit of illness, or when he does not thrive in the world, that such an one does not moise.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Moise v. to mend, improve, increase, &c.
1860 E. Gillett Song Solomon in Norf. Dial. vi. 11 To see wuther the wine-trees moised, and the pomegranates blowed.
1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 144/2 I don't think this plant will ever moise.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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