c1400 (?c1390) (1940) l. 535 Þen þenkkeȝ Gawan ful sone Of his anious uyage.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) §275 A gret multitude of peple, ful chargeant & ful anoyous [c1415 Corpus Oxf. annuyous, c1415 Lansd. annoyus, c1425 Petworth noyous] for to heere.
tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 612 Yf auntys vnto hem [sc. fig trees] ennoyous be.
?c1450 tr. (1906) 128 Ansuerithe not with none anoyeus wordes of ungoodly speche vnto youre husbondes.
1481 W. Caxton tr. ii. xxvii. sig. h7v The tempeste..is greuous & ennoyous to many thynges.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) v. 249 Ony thing, that anoyus or scathfull be.
1548 E. Gest sig. Iiv Ye private masse supper is..annoyous to the practycioners therof.
1587 W. Harrison i. ii. xxiii. 348 Dispersing annoious oppilations.
1607 J. Norden v. 242 Betweene these Weeds,..Gorse and a thousand markes of the first curse annoyous.
1690 tr. G. Buchanan ix. 313 The Scots..resolved to attack Roxburgh, a Neighbour Town, and the Garison there, which was greatly annoyous to the Country thereabout.
1793 T. Taylor ii. ix. 249 Certain small holds and castles, which were somewhat anoyous to the army.
1855 J. Barker 267/2 In spite of all these annoyous obstructions, Mr Chilton succeeded..in getting the vessel to sea.
1915 7 June 375/2 If the new friends prove annoyous you can relegate them to the subconscious.
2010 K. Cushman x. 79 Your annoyous curses and your accusations.
