thoil
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
Definition of thoil
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(Yorkshire, transitive)To be able to justify the expense of.
“Aw lov'd them red shoon but Aw coun't thoil em in addition to t'new dress Aw'd bowt.”
“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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Etymology
Variant of thole, from Middle English tholen, tholien, from Old English þolian (“to bear; endure”). Cognate with Scots thoil. More at thole.
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