thoil

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɪl

Verb

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

1. (Yorkshire, transitive) 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.

   • 1996, Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society:

     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!

Anagrams

• OLith., hilot, litho, litho-, thiol, tholi

Irish

Noun

thoil

1. Lenited form of toil.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θolʲ/

Noun

thoil

1. Lenited form of toil.