noy

See also: Noy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɔɪ/

Etymology 1

From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.

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, section 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."]

   • 1580, Thomas Tusser, “74. A Digression.”, in Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie: […], London: […] Henrie Denham [beeing the assigne of William Seres] […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne and Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 166:

     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.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:

     and all that noyd his heauie spright

Alternative forms

• noie (obsolete)

Etymology 2

From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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.

Fula

Adverb

noy

1. (Adamawa) how, how many?

References

• Tourneux, Henry; Daïrou, Yaya (1999) Vocabulaire peul du monde rural : Maroua-Garoua (Cameroun)‎^[1] (in French), retrieved 7 May 2023

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nui, reinforced through aphesis of anoy. Compare noyen.

Alternative forms

• new, ney, noe, noȝe, noiȝe, noye, noyȝe, nue, nwy, nye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nui̯/, /niu̯/, /niː/

Noun

noy (plural noyes)

1. difficulty, trouble
2. hardship, distress
3. pain, injury
4. ennui, tedium
5. (rare) ire, anger

Descendants

• English: noy (obsolete)
• Scots: noy (obsolete)

References

• “noi, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Verb

noy

1. Alternative form of noyen