"noy" meaning in English

See noy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /nɔɪ/ [UK] Audio: En-us-noy.oga [US]
Rhymes: -ɔɪ Etymology: From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|noy}} Middle English noy, {{der|en|xno|nui}} Anglo-Norman nui Head templates: {{en-noun|?}} noy
  1. (obsolete) Annoyance. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-noy-en-noun-DgPWWYyc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 10 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of Pages with 10 entries: 33 6 2 2 2 8 7 8 25 6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

IPA: /nɔɪ/ [UK] Audio: En-us-noy.oga [US] Forms: noys [present, singular, third-person], noying [participle, present], noyed [participle, past], noyed [past], noie [alternative]
Rhymes: -ɔɪ Etymology: From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|noyen}} Middle English noyen, {{der|en|xno|noier}} Anglo-Norman noier Head templates: {{en-verb}} noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)
  1. (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. Tags: archaic, dialectal Derived forms: noisome, noyment, noyous
    Sense id: en-noy-en-verb-3xvTUnPY
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_number": "1",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "noyen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English noyen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "noier"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman noier",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "noys",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noie",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "attestations": [
        {
          "date": "from 14th c.",
          "references": []
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "noisome"
        },
        {
          "word": "noyment"
        },
        {
          "word": "noyous"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              113,
              117
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:",
          "text": "and all that noyd his heauie spright",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To annoy; to harm or injure."
      ],
      "id": "en-noy-en-verb-3xvTUnPY",
      "links": [
        [
          "annoy",
          "annoy"
        ],
        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
        ],
        [
          "injure",
          "injure"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-noy.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/En-us-noy.oga/En-us-noy.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/En-us-noy.oga",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "noy"
}

{
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "noy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English noy",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "nui"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman nui",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "noy",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "72 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 6 2 2 2 8 7 8 25 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 10 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Annoyance."
      ],
      "id": "en-noy-en-noun-DgPWWYyc",
      "links": [
        [
          "Annoyance",
          "annoyance#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Annoyance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-noy.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/En-us-noy.oga/En-us-noy.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/En-us-noy.oga",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "noy"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
    "English terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 10 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "noisome"
    },
    {
      "word": "noyment"
    },
    {
      "word": "noyous"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": "1",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "noyen"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English noyen",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "noier"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman noier",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English noyen, partly an aphetic form of anoyen and partly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "noys",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noyed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "noie",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "attestations": [
        {
          "date": "from 14th c.",
          "references": []
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              113,
              117
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              17
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:",
          "text": "and all that noyd his heauie spright",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To annoy; to harm or injure."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "annoy",
          "annoy"
        ],
        [
          "harm",
          "harm"
        ],
        [
          "injure",
          "injure"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-noy.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/En-us-noy.oga/En-us-noy.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/En-us-noy.oga",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "noy"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with unknown or uncertain plurals",
    "English terms derived from Anglo-Norman",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "Pages with 10 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪ",
    "Rhymes:English/ɔɪ/1 syllable"
  ],
  "etymology_number": "2",
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "noy"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English noy",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "nui"
      },
      "expansion": "Anglo-Norman nui",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English noy, partly an aphetic form of anoy and partly from Anglo-Norman nui.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "?"
      },
      "expansion": "noy",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Annoyance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Annoyance",
          "annoyance#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Annoyance."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-noy.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9c/En-us-noy.oga/En-us-noy.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/En-us-noy.oga",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɔɪ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "noy"
}

Download raw JSONL data for noy meaning in English (4.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.