noyous
English
Etymology
From Middle English noyous; equivalent to noy + -ous.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɔɪəs/
Adjective
noyous (comparative more noyous, superlative most noyous)
- (now rare, archaic) Troublesome; harmful, injurious.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 72:
- The falſe Dueſſa leauing noyous Night, / Returnd to ſtately pallace of Dame Pryde; […]
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Middle English
Alternative forms
- newous, noȝous, noieose, noieous, noious, noiouse, noius, noyes, noyhous, noyis, noyose, noyouse, noyows, noyowse, noyus, nuous, nuyous, nuyus, nyes, nyous
Etymology
An aphetic form of anoyous; equivalent to noy + -ous.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nui̯ˈuːs/, /ˈnui̯us/
Adjective
noyous
- painful, injurious, harmful
- irritating, difficult, troublesome
- (rare) hazardous, treacherous
- (rare) severe, grievous
Quotations
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “viij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:
- Faire lordes sayd she for goddes loue torne ageyne yf ye may / for ye be come vnto youre dethe / Nay they sayd we wille not torne ageyne / for he shalle helpe vs in whos seruyse we ben entred in / Thenne as they stode talkynge / there came knyghtes wel armed and bad hem yelde them or els to dye / that yeldyng sayd they shal be noyous to yow
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Descendants
- English: noyous
References
- “noiǒus, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.