moither

verb — 3 senses

moither

verb

Etymology See moider (“to toil, muddle, pester”)

1

Yorkshire, Dialectal to bother or harass

Gie o'er mitherin thi brother an come help me wi t'weshin

2

UK, Dialectal To toil; to labour.

3

To perplex; to confuse.

She always had what her mother, who does not seem greatly to have cared for her, called “moithered” brains1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

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