noy

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

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.
   • 1580, Thomas Tusser, “74. A Digression.”, in Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie: , London: Henrie Denham  , →OCLC; republished as W Payne and Sidney J 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

References

• “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)‎ (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