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noie

noie is the obsolete spelling of noy.

Meaning of noy

Verb

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

  1. (archaic, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure.
    • 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]...

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Forms of noie

third-person singular presentnoies
present participlenoying
past participlenoied
pastnoied

Questions about noie

What is noie the obsolete spelling of?
Noie is the obsolete spelling of noy.

Words near noie in the dictionary

  1. NOICs
  2. noid
  3. Noida
  4. noided
  5. noids
  6. noie
  7. noier
  8. noiers
  9. noight
  10. noights
  11. noil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: noie (page history and authors); noy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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