noy

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /nɔɪ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪ

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.

Verb[edit]

noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)

  1. (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. [from 14th c.]
Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui.

Noun[edit]

noy

  1. (obsolete) annoyance

References[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Catalan[edit]

Noun[edit]

noy m (plural noys)

  1. Obsolete spelling of noi

Further reading[edit]

  • “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Fula[edit]

Adverb[edit]

noy

  1. (Adamawa) how, how many?

References[edit]

  • Tourneux, Henry; Daïrou, Yaya (1999) Vocabulaire peul du monde rural : Maroua-Garoua (Cameroun)[1] (in French), retrieved 7 May 2023

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nui, reinforced through aphesis of anoy. Compare noyen.

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /nui̯/, /niu̯/, /niː/

Noun[edit]

noy (plural noyes)

  1. difficulty, trouble
  2. hardship, distress
  3. pain, injury
  4. ennui, tedium
  5. (rare) ire, anger
Descendants[edit]
  • English: noy (obsolete)
  • Scots: noy (obsolete)
References[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

noy

  1. Alternative form of noyen