Roil vs Droil - What's the difference?
roil | droil |
To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of
* To roil wine, cider, etc, in casks or bottles
* To roil a spring.
To annoy; to make someone angry.
* R. North
To bubble, seethe.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 (obsolete) To wander; to roam.
(obsolete, UK, dialect, intransitive) To romp.
As verbs the difference between roil and droil
is that roil is to render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of while droil is to work sluggishly or slowly; to plod.As a noun droil is
a drudge.roil
English
Verb
(en verb)- That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him exceedingly.
citation, passage=Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
- (Halliwell)