Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To toil, to work hard. · To churn continually; to swirl. · To defile or dirty.
Hard work. · Confusion, turmoil. · A spot; a defilement.
From Middle English mollen (“to soften by wetting”), borrowed from Old French moillier with the same meaning, from Vulgar Latin *molliō, *molliare, from mollis (“soft”).
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