noy
English
Etymology
Partly aphetic form of annoy, partly directly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.
Pronunciation
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Verb
noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)
- (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. [from 14th c.]
- [c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.]
- [c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
- "In Normandie was he noght
- Noyed for my sake;
- Ac thow thiself soothly
- Shamedest hym ofte,
- Crope into a cabane1740
- For cold of thi nayles,
- Wendest that wynter
- Wolde han y-lasted evere,
- And dreddest to be ded
- For a dym cloude,
- And hyedest homward
- For hunger of thi wombe."]
- 1557 February 13 (Gregorian calendar), Thomas Tusser, “74. A Digression.”, in A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, London: […] Richard Tottel, →OCLC, stanza 4:
- Spenser
- All that noyed his heavy spright.
- [c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:
Alternative forms
- noie (obsolete)
Noun
noy
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “noy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Catalan
Noun
noy m (plural noys)
Further reading
- “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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