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单词 toilful
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toilfuladj.

Brit. /ˈtɔɪlf(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈtɔɪlfəl/
Forms: see toil n.1 and -ful suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: toil n.1, -ful suffix.
Etymology: < toil n.1 + -ful suffix. Compare earlier toiling adj., toilsome adj.
1. Involving toil or hard work; = toilsome adj. 2. Now somewhat rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome
soreOE
workfulOE
hardOE
torc1175
beswinkfulc1230
heavya1325
sweatyc1374
travailousa1382
laboriousa1393
laborousc1405
winful1443
painfulc1480
toilous1530
operousa1538
drudging1548
travailsome1549
laboursome1551
moilingc1566
toilsome?1570
toilful1573
sweating1592
insudate1609
sweatfula1618
moliminous1656
operose1659
swinking1693
schleppy1978
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > causing weariness or exhaustion > esp. through labour
travailousa1382
laboriousc1410
travailsome1549
break-back1556
toilsome?1570
toilful1573
back-aching1603
back-breaking1904
1573 tr. M. Luther Expos. Salomons Bk. i. 12 Meaning hereby to represse their calamitie and toylefull trauels.
1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 9 How can you then with reason deny that to age; which doth ease the toylful burthen of age?
1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue iv. 432 Hee..that..In Toil-full Fears will his own death procure.
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 105 Long trauell, tyrings, and toylefull labours.
1749 T. Smollett Regicide v. iv. 69 Now, the loud Tempest of the toilful Day Subsides into a Calm.
1785 Scots Mag. Feb. 89/2 My walk through the darkling vale of toilful life has not been through a wilderness of sweets.
a1788 W. J. Mickle Liberty in Wks. Brit. Poets (1822) XXXIV. 46 The fruitful lawns confess his toilful care.
1847 W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) IV. 11 This has been a toilful year to me.
1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home viii. 96 Climbing with toilful progress some steep and rocky hill.
1925 R. Love Rise & Fall of Jesse James xxviii. 310 The family reached Fulton, county seat of Callaway, after days of toilful journeying.
a1984 S. C. Neill Hist. Christianity in India (1985) i. i. 2 The age-long and toilful effort of the human race towards the production of one world.
2010 Cybernetics & Syst. 46 636 Such an algorithm is laborious since it contains repeated consistency tests of systems of linear constraints, each being rather toilful.
2. Of a person, animal, etc.: labouring; hard-working. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adjective] > laborious or toilsome > toiling
swinking?c1225
travailinga1398
drudging1548
toiling1552
toilsome1566
toilful1596
sweaty1603
droiling1607
carkingc1620
laboriferous1656
fagging1665
moiling1692
tewing1855
maulinga1864
bullocking1900
1596 E. Spenser Hymne Heauenly Loue in Fowre Hymnes 227 Betweene the toylefull Oxe and humble Asse.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 517 The burthen-bearing porter, souterlie cobler, and toylefull labourer.
1793 J. Marjoribanks Pieces of Rhyme 17 To all the fervour of the vertic ray The toilful planter stands expos'd by day.
1832 W. Irving Alhambra I. 70 We behold the patient train of the toilful muleteer, slowly moving along the skirts of the mountain.
1839 W. Irving Mountjoy in Knickerbocker Mag. Nov. 403 The wild flowers were no longer..the resorts of the toilful bee.
1887 Blackie in Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 536 The toilful monks of Croyland Clave the clod.
1923 C. M. Doughty Mansoul (rev. ed.) ii. 51 Where tread slow-footed round, The toilful ox-teams.
1967 Classical World 61 2/2 Father Hayden has captured..the high seriousness and purposeful achievement of the toilful participants in their idyllic surroundings.

Derivatives

ˈtoilfully adv. in a toilful manner.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [adverb] > laboriously
travailouslya1382
laboursomely1552
laboriously?1611
toilsomely1614
moilingly1621
operosely1668
operously1668
moliminously1678
toilingly1731
toilfully1820
1820 C. Stuart Emigrant's Guide to Upper Canada v. 62 He must toilfully burn those heaps after they are sufficiently dry for that purpose.
1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. ix. 633 Toilfully he climbed them, reached the highest crest, and turning about, looked long.
2000 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 1 Mar. 53 Here are some points in a philosophy toilfully gleaned from vacuuming: Push will get you where you're going... If you're not plugged in, you may not get anywhere.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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