toilsome
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈtɔɪlsəm/
toilsome
- Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
- ‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.10:
- German: mühselig, mühsam, anstrengend, schwer
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