droil
verbEtymology From Dutch druil (“sluggard”). Compare droll.
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To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
droil
noun/dɹɔɪl/
Etymology From Dutch druil (“sluggard”). Compare droll.
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Obsolete A drudge; a minion or servile worker.
- Then I begin to rave at my stars' bitterness, / To see how many muckhills plac'd above me; / Peasants and droils, caroches full of dunghillsc. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Two homely droils were authors of my deatha. 1595, Robert Southwell, St. Peter's Complaint:
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Obsolete hard work; toil or drudgery.
- When the burden of daytime droil is o'er1880, Karl Knortz, Otto Dickman, Modern American Lyrics: