moither

English

Etymology

See moider (“to toil, muddle, pester”)

Verb

moither (third-person singular simple present moithers, present participle moithering, simple past and past participle moithered)

1. (Yorkshire, dialect) to bother or harass

   Gie o'er mitherin thi brother an come help me wi t'weshin

2. (UK, dialect) To toil; to labour.
3. To perplex; to confuse.
   • 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

     She always had what her mother, who does not seem greatly to have cared for her, called “moithered” brains

References

“moither”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• mohrite, mothier, thermoi, thiomer