pilolen.
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Editorial misreading (in R. Napier's edition (1882) of A Noble Boke off Cookry) of pilote, Middle English variant of pellet n.1 (see forms at that entry), taken by N.E.D. (1906) to show a noun pilole with the sense ‘a small ball, a pill’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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n.- to work one's kind
- to work one's magic
- to work one's passage
- to work one's socks off
- to work one's soul out
- to work one's tail off
- to work one's ticket
- to work one's way
- to work one's way through college
- to work one's way through etc
- to work one's way through school
- to work one's way through university
- to work one's way up
- to work one's will
- to work ones tuchus off
- to work out
- to work out of a suitcase
- to work out one's own salvation
- to work out salvation
- to work over
- to work overtime
- to suck out of one's own finger
- to suck out of one's own fingers' ends
- to suck round
- to suck something out at one's fingers' ends