noy

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UK/nɔɪ/

verb

To annoy; to harm or injure.

OriginMiddle English noyen ← Anglo-Norman noier →
UncommonFirst used 14th c.Scrabble 6
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Meanings

noy1

verbnoy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)

present singular third person noys · participle present noying · participle past noyed · past noyed · alternative noie

  1. archaicdialectalTo annoy; to harm or injure.First known use 14th c.

    and all that noyd his heauie spright

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24
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    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.

    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

noy2

noun
  1. obsoleteAnnoyance.

Noy3

proper nounNoy (plural Noys)

plural Noys

  1. A surname.

Origin

noy · verb

  1. Anglo-Normannoier
  2. Middle Englishnoyen
  3. Englishnoy

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

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noy · noun

  1. Anglo-Normannui
  2. Middle Englishnoy
  3. Englishnoy

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

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Noy · proper noun

  1. Laoຍ
  2. CatalanNoy
  3. Hebrewנוי“decoration, adornment”
  4. EnglishNoy

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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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with noy

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Anagrams

yonnyo
Cite this entry
APA

noy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noy

MLA

“noy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noy. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “noy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noy.

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