noy
See also: Noy
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.
Verb edit
noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)
- (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. [from 14th c.]
- 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:
- 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 edit
- noie (obsolete)
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui.
Noun edit
noy
References edit
- “noy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Noun edit
noy m (plural noys)
Further reading edit
- “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Fula edit
Adverb edit
noy
References edit
- Tourneux, Henry, Daïrou, Yaya (1999) Vocabulaire peul du monde rural : Maroua-Garoua (Cameroun)[1] (in French), retrieved 7 May 2023
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nui, reinforced through aphesis of anoy. Compare noyen.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
noy (plural noyes)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “noi, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
noy
- Alternative form of noyen