noosance

English

Etymology

Respelling representing the pronunciation of nuisance in an accent with yod dropping; for speakers with this kind of accent (such as the majority of American English speakers), this spelling would constitute eye dialect since it is identical to their pronunciation of the standard spelling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.səns/

Noun

noosance (plural noosances)

1. Pronunciation spelling of nuisance.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 35:

     The noosance was […] that to make the umbrella effective he would have to carry abroad such weight to ballast it as would put the whole contraption out of action for carrying abroad at all.

2. Eye dialect spelling of nuisance.