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[tɔɪl], (Verb)
Definitions:
- work extremely hard or incessantly
(e.g: we toiled away)
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Origin
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Middle English (in the senses ‘contend verbally’ and ‘strife’): from Anglo-Norman French toiler ‘strive, dispute’, toil ‘confusion’, from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’, from tudicula ‘machine for crushing olives’, related to tundere ‘crush’
[tɔɪl], (Noun)
Definitions:
- exhausting physical labour
(e.g: a life of toil)
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Origin
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Middle English (in the senses ‘contend verbally’ and ‘strife’): from Anglo-Norman French toiler ‘strive, dispute’, toil ‘confusion’, from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’, from tudicula ‘machine for crushing olives’, related to tundere ‘crush’
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