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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-312/
- Published: 2025-06-15T18:15:31.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-15T18:15:30.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

moil (verb,noun): 

*verb*

1: to work hard : drudge

2: to be in continuous agitation : churn, swirl

*noun*

1: hard work : drudgery

2: confusion, turmoil

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moil?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Moil may mean "to work hard" but its origins are the opposite of hard; it ultimately derives from Latin mollis, meaning "soft." (Other English derivatives of mollis are emollient, mollify, and mollusk.) A more immediate ancestor of moil is the Anglo-French verb moiller, meaning "to make wet, dampen," and one of the early meanings of moil in English was "to become wet and muddy." The "work hard" sense of moil appears most frequently in the pairing "toil and moil." Both moil and toil can also be nouns meaning "work." Moil implies work that is drudgery and toil suggests prolonged and fatiguing labor. 

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