noy

Partly aphetic form of annoy, partly directly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɔɪ/

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.

   • Spenser

     All that noyed his heavy spright.

   • 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."

noy

1. (obsolete) annoyance

• Yon, yon