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roil
English
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Possibly from French or Middle French rouiller (“to rust, make muddy”), from Old French rouil (“mud, rust”), from Vulgar Latin *robicula, from Latin robigo (“rust, blight”)
Pronunciation
- (UK, General American) IPA(key): /???l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Verb
roil (third-person singular simple present roils, present participle roiling, simple past and past participle roiled)
- (transitive) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.
- Synonym: agitate
- (transitive) To annoy; to make someone angry.
- Synonyms: irritate, rile
- 1890, Roger North, Lives of the Norths
- That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.
- (intransitive) To bubble, seethe.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wander; to roam.
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect, intransitive) To romp.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Translations
Anagrams
- Loir, Lori, loir
Estonian
Noun
roil
- adessive plural of roog
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broil
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:
- bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *br?jan (“to burn, scald”)
- usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustul? (“to scorch”)
Verb
broil (third-person singular simple present broils, present participle broiling, simple past and past participle broiled)
- (transitive, Canada, US) To cook by direct, radiant heat.
- Synonym: (British) grill
- (transitive, Canada, US) To expose to great heat.
- (intransitive, Canada, US) To be exposed to great heat.
Translations
Noun
broil (plural broils)
- Food prepared by broiling.
Etymology 2
Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodicul?re (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþ? (“broth”). Doublet of broth.
Verb
broil (third-person singular simple present broils, present participle broiling, simple past and past participle broiled)
- (transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To brawl.
Noun
broil (plural broils)
- (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, verses 1-2
- So, I am safe emerged from these broils! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 27
- "Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters; they have not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut out of stone."
- 1840, Robert Chambers, William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.
- 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
- I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, verses 1-2
Synonyms
- skirmish
Translations
Anagrams
- LIBOR, libro-
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