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English
Etymology
From Dutch druil (“sluggard”). Compare droll.
Pronunciation
Noun
droil (countable and uncountable, plural droils)
- (obsolete) A drudge.
c. 1613, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, “Wit at Several Weapons. A Comedy.”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Then I begin to rave at my stars' bitterness, / To see how many muckhills plac'd above me; / Peasants and droils, caroches full of dunghills
- (obsolete) Mean labour; toil.
Verb
droil (third-person singular simple present droils, present participle droiling, simple past and past participle droiled)
- To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
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