annoyer
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
annoyer (plural annoyers)
- One who annoys.
- 1577, Dydymus Mountaine [pseudonym; Thomas Hill], Henry Dethicke [i.e., Henry Dethick], “The Artfull Inuentions and Helpes againste the Garden Moles, Antes, Gnattes, Flies, and Frogges, Euerting, Harming and Wasting as well Kitchen Hearbes, as Trees and Fruites”, in The Gardeners Labyrinth: […], London: […] Henry Bynneman, →OCLC, page 57:
- This Authoure alſo writeth, that the Piſmires are wicked annoyers to trees, which the Gardener or Huſbandman ſayeth hee, maye force to forſake and leaue, if he beſtrike the neather partes of the Trees round aboute with the powder of the Ruddell, and Liquide pitche or Tarre, mixed togither, […]
- 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Venemous Serpents in General”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 186:
- It is not therefore without reaſon, that the Aſiatics, who live in regions where ſerpents greatly abound, wear boots and long cloaths, which very well protect their lower parts from the accidental reſentment of their reptile annoyers.
- 1940, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 10, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, London: Jonathan Cape, page 110:
- He was a great annoyer of girls, and he was a coward, and he had always wished to be an amateur bullfighter.