noyen

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman nuier, reinforced through aphesis of anoyen. Compare anoyen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnui̯ən/, /ˈniu̯ən/, /ˈniːən/

Verb

noyen

  1. To hurt; to cause injury.
  2. To harass, distress, or trouble.
  3. To bother; to annoy or irritate.
    • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
      That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.]
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    • 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."]
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  4. To wear out; to exhaust.
  5. To make angry or revolted.
  6. (rare) To be annoyed or irritated.

Conjugation

Conjugation of noyen (weak in -ed)
infinitive (to) noyen, noye
present tense past tense
1st-person singular noye noyed
2nd-person singular noyest noyedest
3rd-person singular noyeth noyed
subjunctive singular noye
imperative singular —
plural1 noyen, noye noyeden, noyede
imperative plural noyeth, noye —
participles noyynge, noyende noyed, ynoyed

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

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

References

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