noy

English

Etymology

Partly aphetic form of annoy, partly directly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔɪ/

Verb

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.]
   • [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:

     Take heed to false harlots, and more, ye wot what. / If noise ye heare, / Looke all be cleare: / Least drabs doe noie thee, / And theeues destroie thee.

   • Spenser

     All that noyed his heavy spright.

Alternative forms

• noie (obsolete)

Noun

noy

1. (obsolete) annoyance

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

• Yon, yon

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Catalan

Noun

noy m (plural noys)

1. Obsolete spelling of noi.

Further reading

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