bemoil

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verb

To soil or dirty

OriginFrench mouiller →
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Meanings

verbbemoil (third-person singular simple present bemoils, present participle bemoiling, simple past and past participle bemoiled)

present singular third person bemoils · participle present bemoiling · participle past bemoiled · past bemoiled

  1. obsoleteTo soil or dirty

    Tell thou the tale: –but hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard, in how miry a place; how she was bemoiled; […].

    c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]

Origin

  1. Frenchmouiller
  2. Englishbemoil

From be- + moil, from French mouiller to wet; but compare also Old English bimolen to soil, and English mole.

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APA

bemoil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bemoil

MLA

“bemoil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bemoil. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bemoil,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bemoil.

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