annoyer

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noun

One who annoys.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounannoyer (plural annoyers)

plural annoyers

  1. One who annoys.

    He was a great annoyer of girls, and he was a coward, and he had always wished to be an amateur bullfighter.

    1940, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 10, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, London: Jonathan Cape, page 110
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    This Authoure alſo writeth, that the Piſmires are wicked annoyers to trees, which the Gardener or Huſbandman ſayeth hee, maye force to forſake and leaue, if he beſtrike the neather partes of the Trees round aboute with the powder of the Ruddell, and Liquide pitche or Tarre, mixed togither, […]

    1577, Dydymus Mountaine [pseudonym; Thomas Hill], Henry Dethicke [i.e., Henry Dethick], “The Artfull Inuentions and Helpes againste the Garden Moles, Antes, Gnattes, Flies, and Frogges, Euerting, Harming and Wasting as well Kitchen Hearbes, as Trees and Fruites”, in The Gardeners Labyrinth: […], London: […] Henry Bynneman, →OCLC, page 57

    It is not therefore without reaſon, that the Aſiatics, who live in regions where ſerpents greatly abound, wear boots and long cloaths, which very well protect their lower parts from the accidental reſentment of their reptile annoyers.

    1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Venemous Serpents in General”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 186

Synonyms & antonyms

nounsomeone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

Broader
unwelcome personpersona non grata

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
  6. Proto-Italic*odjom
  7. Latinodium
  8. Late Latininodiāre
  9. Old Frenchenoiier
  10. Middle Englishanoyen
  11. Englishannoy
  12. Englishannoyer

From annoy + -er.

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Translations

Portuguese irritador, irritante
  • irritadorone who annoys
  • irritanteone who annoys

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