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garboils

garboils is the plural of garboil.

Meaning of garboil

Noun

garboil (countable and uncountable, plural garboils)

  1. (archaic) Disorder; uproar.
    • With greate vproares & garboile shal there bee arisinges of nacion against nacion & royalme against royalme.1548, Nicholas Udall, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurch, Luke 21, page clxv

Questions about garboils

What is garboils the plural of?
Garboils is the plural of garboil.

Words near garboils in the dictionary

  1. garboard strake
  2. garboard strakes
  3. garboards
  4. Garboesque
  5. garboil
  6. garboils
  7. garbological
  8. garbologically
  9. garbologist
  10. garbologists
  11. garbology

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