thoil

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verb

To be able to justify the expense of.

“Aw lov'd them red shoon but Aw coun't thoil em in addition to t'new dress Aw'd bowt.”

OriginMiddle English tholen ← Old English þolian →
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Meanings

verbthoil (third-person singular simple present thoils, present participle thoiling, simple past and past participle thoiled)

present singular third person thoils · participle present thoiling · participle past thoiled · past thoiled

  1. YorkshiretransitiveTo be able to justify the expense of.

    Aw lov'd them red shoon but Aw coun't thoil em in addition to t'new dress Aw'd bowt.

    1 more example

    But yon poor widder-woman, strugglin' along on a bit of a pension, 'ad nowt left but two coppers - but sh' thoiled it, an' put it in, all t' same!

    1996, Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society

Origin

  1. Old Englishþolian“to bear; endure”
  2. Middle Englishtholen
  3. Englishthoil

Variant of thole, from Middle English tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian (“to bear; endure”). Cognate with Scots thoil. More at thole.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with thoil

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Anagrams

lithothiolhilotLohit
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APA

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Chicago

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