noy

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nɔɪ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪ

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

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.]
   • 1878, Thomas Tusser, “74. A Digression.”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, 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

• noie (obsolete)

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

noy

1. (obsolete) Annoyance.

• “noy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Yon, yon

noy m (plural noys)

1. obsolete spelling of noi

• “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Proto-Brythonic *nei, from Proto-Celtic *neɸūts. Cognate with Breton ni, Irish nia, Manx neear, and Welsh nai.

• IPA^(key): /nɔˑɪ/

noy m (plural noyens)

1. nephew

noy

1. (Adamawa) how, how many?

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /nui̯/, /niu̯/, /niː/

noy (plural noyes)

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

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

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

noy

1. alternative form of noyen