Meanings
adjectivenoyous (comparative more noyous, superlative most noyous)
comparative more noyous · superlative most noyous
- archaicTroublesome; harmful, injurious.
The falſe Dueſſa leauing noyous Night, / Returnd to ſtately pallace of Dame Pryde;[…]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 72
Origin
- Middle Englishnoyous
- Englishnoyous
From Middle English noyous; equivalent to noy + -ous.
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