Roin vs Roil - What's the difference?
roin | roil |
(obsolete) To growl; to roar.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.9:
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 a noun roin
is .As a verb roil is
to render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of.roin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) runger, ultimately of imitative origin.Verb
(en verb)- Yet did he murmure with rebellious sound, / And softly royne , when salvage choler gan redound.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) ruinne, roin et al., of uncertain origin. Compare roynish.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)
