noyous

adj

noyous

adj

UK /ˈnɔɪəs/

Etymology From Middle English noyous; equivalent to noy + -ous.

1

Archaic Troublesome; harmful, injurious.

  • The falſe Dueſſa leauing noyous Night, / Returnd to ſtately pallace of Dame Pryde;[…]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 72:

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