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moither

moither verb: to bother or harass.

Verb

moither (third-person singular simple present moithers, present participle moithering, simple past and past participle moithered)

  1. (Yorkshire, dialectal) to bother or harass
    • Gie o'er mitherin thi brother an come help me wi t'weshin
  2. (UK, dialectal) To toil; to labour.
  3. To perplex; to confuse.
    • She always had what her mother, who does not seem greatly to have cared for her, called “moithered” brains1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC

Forms of moither

third-person singular presentmoithers
present participlemoithering
past participlemoithered
pastmoithered

Origin of moither

See moider (“to toil, muddle, pester”)

Questions about moither

What does moither mean?
Moither means to bother or harass.
What part of speech is moither?
Moither is a verb.
What is the past tense of moither?
The past tense of moither is moithered.

Words near moither in the dictionary

  1. moisturizing
  2. moisturizing cream
  3. moisturizing creams
  4. moisty
  5. moit
  6. moither
  7. moithered
  8. moithering
  9. moithers
  10. moities
  11. moity

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