▪ move around in confusion or agitation:"a crowd of men and women moiled in the smoky haze"
noun
1. hard work; drudgery.
▪ turmoil; confusion:"the moil of his intimate thoughts"
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘moisten or bedaub’): from Old French moillier ‘paddle in mud, moisten’, based on Latin mollis ‘soft’. The sense ‘work’ dates from the mid 16th century, often in the phrase toil and moil.
