Noy
name, noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Annoyance. obsolete
- 1 To annoy; to harm or injure. archaic, dialectal
"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."
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.
From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui.
Several origins: * A variant of the English surname Noe, related to Noah. * Ornamental surname, from Hebrew נוי (nói, “decoration, adornment”), in part adopted as a Hebraicized form of various Ashkenazi surnames containg the unrelated German element neu (“new”) * Borrowed from Catalan Noy, variant of Noi, nickname from noi (“boy, lad”) * Borrowed from Lao ຍ (nya)
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