toil
verb
[ tɔɪl ]
• work extremely hard or incessantly.
• "we toiled away"
Similar:
work hard,
labour,
work one's fingers to the bone,
work like a Trojan,
work like a dog,
work day and night,
exert oneself,
keep at it,
grind away,
slave away,
grub away,
plough away,
plod away,
slog away,
peg away,
beaver away,
plug away,
put one's back into something,
work one's guts out,
work one's socks off,
knock oneself out,
sweat blood,
kill oneself,
graft away,
fag,
bullock,
drudge,
travail,
moil,
work one's balls/arse/nuts off,
work one's ass/butt off,
toil
noun
• exhausting physical labour.
• "a life of toil"
Similar:
hard work,
toiling,
labour,
slaving,
struggle,
effort,
exertion,
application,
industry,
grind,
slog,
blood,
sweat,
and tears,
drudgery,
elbow grease,
graft,
(hard) yakka,
travail,
moil,
Origin:
Middle English (in the senses ‘contend verbally’ and ‘strife’): from Anglo-Norman French toiler ‘strive, dispute’, toil ‘confusion’, from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’, from tudicula ‘machine for crushing olives’, related to tundere ‘crush’.
