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† ˈnoyous, a. Obs. Forms: 4–5 noyus, 4–7 -ous, 5–6 -ouse, 5 -ows(e, -ose, Sc. -us, 5–6 noyes (5 -is); 5 noiose, 5–6 noious (6 -ouse); 5 nuous, nvous, 6 nuyouse. [Aphetic form of anoyous, etc., annoyous a.] Causing annoyance; vexatious, troublesome, etc.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxvii. 15 Here noyus wordis and ȝeld not agayn. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1504 (Harl.), Lat in ȝour herte no noyouse fantasie So crepe, þat it cause me to die. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 55 Þer is no þing more noious to a wounde. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 212 Profitable as an hors, nuous as a mows. 1470–85Malory Arthur xvii. viii. 701 That yeldyng, sayd they, shal be noyous to yow. 1533More Apol. 86 b, Suche as are..euyle, and nought, and noyouse vnto the comen well. 1576Baker Jewell of Health 10 b, Howe noyous and hurtfull such a vapour and savour is. 1634J. Levett Ordering of Bees 13 Those noyous and filthy things being taken away. 1675A. Huyberts Corner-Stone 11 Divers medicines which at the first usage..were exclaimed against..as noyous and hurtful to the king's subjects. Hence † ˈnoyously adv. Obs.
1483Cath. Angl. 256/1 Noyovsly, nocue. 1641Baker Chron. (1653) 359 Hounseditch..till that time, had lien very noyously to all travellers that way. |