noy
UK/nɔɪ/
noy verb: to annoy; to harm or injure.
Verb
noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)
- 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]...
- and all that noyd his heauie spright1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24
Noun
noy
Proper noun capitalized: Noy
Noy (plural Noys)
- A surname.
Forms of noy
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | noys |
| present participle | noying |
| past participle | noyed |
| past | noyed |
| alternative form | noie |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Noys |
Origin of noy
From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.
From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui.
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)
Words formed from noy
Words that rhyme with noy
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- JOI
- joy
- alloy
- Amoy
- cloy
- convoy
- deploy
- goy
- oi
- overjoy
- ploy
- travois
- ahoy
- annoy
- catboy
- Choi
- foxboy
- foy
- Hanoi
- hoi polloi
- kathoey
- poi
- Saint Croix
- soy
- Sukhoi
- accoy
- bok choy
- cocky's joy
- diaperboy
- doy
- Floy
- hoi
- hoo, boy
- hoy
- killjoy
- Kilroy
- koi
- loy
- man and boy
- oe
- oy
- pick-me boy
- ploye
- po' boy
- puppyboy
- Savoie
- stroy
- sugoi
Questions about noy
- What does noy mean?
- Noy means to annoy; to harm or injure.
- What part of speech is noy?
- Noy can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce noy?
- Noy is pronounced /nɔɪ/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of noy?
- The past tense of noy is noyed.
Words near noy in the dictionary
Source and license
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