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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
Verb
thoil (third-person singular simple present thoils, present participle thoiling, simple past and past participle thoiled)
- (Yorkshire, transitive) To be able to justify the expense of.
Aw lov'd them red shoon but Aw cun'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!
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Irish
Noun
thoil
- Lenited form of toil.
Old Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
thoil
- Lenited form of toil.