moider

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She was here to lunching a few days before the moider, an' she says she always sat at the table in the dining room to eat, after Miss Van Allen got through.

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  1. To confuse; perplex; distract; bewilder. I've been strangely moyder'd e're sin ‘bout this same news oth’ French king. I conno believe 'tis true. Wit of a Woman (1705). (Nares.) You'll happen be a bit moithered with it [a child] while it's so little. George Eliot, Silas Marner, xiv.
  2. To spend in labor. She lived only to scrape and hoard, moidering away her loveless life in the futile energies and sordid aims of a miser's wretched pleasure. Cornhill Mag. [Obsolete or prov. Eng. in both uses.]
  3. To labor hard; toil. [Provincial English]

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  • (He pronounced it "moider" but I'm not going to try to reproduce linguistic peculiarities.) —  Isaac Asimov - Murder at the ABA
  • She was here to lunching a few days before the moider, an' she says she always sat at the table in the dining room to eat, after Miss Van Allen got through. —  Vicky Van
  • But he needn't moider hisself! —  Robert Elsmere
  • Nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slipslop conversation of a pack of women. ' —  Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
  • But lie needn't moider hisself! —  Robert Elsmere
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