droil
/dɹɔɪl/
droil noun: a drudge; a minion or servile worker.
Noun
droil (countable and uncountable, plural droils)
- A drudge; a minion or servile worker.
- Then I begin to rave at my stars' bitterness, / To see how many muckhills plac'd above me; / Peasants and droils, caroches full of dunghillsc. 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...
- Two homely droils were authors of my deatha. 1595, Robert Southwell, St. Peter's Complaint
- hard work; toil or drudgery.
- When the burden of daytime droil is o'er1880, Karl Knortz, Otto Dickman, Modern American Lyrics
Verb
droil (third-person singular simple present droils, present participle droiling, simple past and past participle droiled)
- To work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.
Forms of droil
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | droils |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | droils |
| present participle | droiling |
| past participle | droiled |
| past | droiled |
Origin of droil
From Dutch druil (“sluggard”). Compare droll.
Words that rhyme with droil
Questions about droil
- What does droil mean?
- Droil means a drudge; a minion or servile worker.
- What part of speech is droil?
- Droil can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce droil?
- Droil is pronounced /dɹɔɪl/.
- What is the plural of droil?
- The plural of droil is droils.
Words near droil in the dictionary
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