Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bedraggle; bemire; soil or encumber with mire and dirt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
soil orencumber withmire anddirt .
Etymologies
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be- + moil, from French mouiller to wet; but compare also Old English bimolen to soil, and English mole.
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brtom commented on the word bemoil
"Art drooping under thy load, bemoiled with butcher's bills at home and ingots (not thine!) in the countinghouse?"
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 27, 2007