noisey

comparative noisier · superlative noisiest

1. uncommonUncommon form of noisy.

   But ſeeing her, they joyntly fell / A pointing, and a hooting, ſo; / That ſhe took up her heels, to go / And herd among a noiſey Troop / Of Sergeants, fed with Brimſtone Soop.

   1701 (indicated as 1702), “The Third Vision of the Last Judgment”, in The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo. Villegas. […] Made English by Sir R[oger] Lestrange, and Burlesqu’d by a Person of Quality., London: […] B[enjamin] Harris, […], →OCLC, page 79

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   Where the ſoft tale of Love She breathes, / Mixt with the ruſhing of the wind-blown leaves, / The different Notes of Cheerful Birds, / And diſtant Bleating of the Herds: / Is Muſick far more raviſhing and ſweet, / Then all the Artful Sounds that pleaſe the noiſey Great.

   1684, A[phra] Behn, “A Farewel to Celladon, On his Going into Ireland”, in Poems upon Several Occasions: with a Voyage to the Island of Love, London: […] R[ichard] Tonson and J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, stanza VI, page 17

   I ſpeak not this that thou ſhouldſt think Friends know not the uſe of its Vertue in other reſpects; for to deal plainly with thee, there are a ſort of Wet-friends, who perhaps have been as ſenſible of the warm Effects of the Bottle, as the great hectoring noiſey Pretenders: But what then?

   1689, “Another Complement by a Friend of the Order of the Grape, on a famous King of B. M.”, in The Quakers Art of Courtship: or, The Yea-and-Nay Academy of Complements Calculated for the Meridian of the Bull-and-Mouth; […], London: […], →OCLC, chapter III (Certain Examples of friendly Greetings towards Great Men), pages 23–24

   The firſt thing he falls foul on ſhews the Fellow to be top-full of Malice; and what little things muſt ſerve him to make a noiſe with in my Epiſtle; I ſaid, This little Book will run the Nation thorough; but that way did not pleaſe him, it ſeems, to expreſs it; and therefore after a great deal of noiſey ſtuff, he puts me, as he thinks, in a better way, to ſay this little Book ſhall run thorough the Nation; […]

   1693, J[ohn] Partridge, “An Answer to His Idle Pamphlet”, in Nebulo Anglicanus. Or, The First Part of the Black Life of John Gadbury. […], London: […], →OCLC, page 16

   Alas! Poor Jemmy has no ſuch good Stars to help him to his three Crowns again, one Crown in the other World is worth three and twenty in this, here’s nothing in this lower Orb but trouble and vexation, and who would value empty Titles and noiſey Greatneſs mixt with ſo much allay and mortification?

   1697, Nunc aut Nunquam, Peace Now or Never; Being a Dialogue betwixt Jack and Will, upon the Present Juncture of Affairs, London: […] Tho[mas] Snowden […], and sold by E[lizabeth] Whitlock, […], →OCLC, pages 24–25

   But as for thoſe loud Peals of noiſey Mirth, thoſe Rattlings and Shakings of the Lungs and Sides, which are rather Violent Convulſions than any real Delight, Theſe, according to Him, are by no means the Practice of a Man of Virtue, and One who is a Maſter of Himſelf; […]

   1699, [Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet], anonymous translator, “St. Basils Remarks upon the Gravity of a Christian Conversation”, in Maxims and Reflections upon Plays. […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC, page 117