# annoy
## English
### Pronunciation

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* IPA: /əˈnɔɪ/
* Rhymes: -ɔɪ

### Etymology 1

From Middle English anoyen, from Old French anoier (“to bother, disturb”), from Late Latin inodiāre (“to make loathsome”), derived from Latin odium (“loathing, hatred”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan, gremman.

#### Verb

annoy (third-person singular simple present annoys, present participle annoying, simple past and past participle annoyed)
* (transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
    Synonyms: bother, irritate; see also Thesaurus:annoy
    Antonym: please
    Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.
** 1735, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot‎:Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; / Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, / Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys.
** 1993, D.C. Fontana, Peter Allan Fields, “Dax”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor):You Klaestrons are allies of the Cardassians; your knowledge of the station confirms that they must have given you the layouts. Which not only compromises Bajoran security, but also... annoys us.
** 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
* (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome. (Can we verify this sense?)
* (transitive, archaic) To molest; to harm; to injure.
    Synonyms: damage, wound; see also Thesaurus:harm
    to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
** 1644 December 3 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 23 November 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
** 1691, Matthew Prior, Pastoral to Dr. Turner, Bishop of Ely:Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

##### Derived terms

* annoyable
* annoyance
* annoybot
* annoyed
* annoyer
* annoyful
* annoying
* annoyment
* annoyous
* annoyware

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English anoy, from Old French enui. Doublet of ennui.

#### Noun

annoy (plural annoys)
* (literary, archaic) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
** 1606 (date written), [Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher], The Woman Hater. […], London: […] [Robert Raworth], and are to be sold by John Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:VVe that ſuffer long anoy / Are contented vvith a thought / Through an idle fancie vvrought / O let my ioyes have ſome abiding.
** 1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Success”, in Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 272:[I]f she says he was defeated, why he had better, a great deal, have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy.
* (literary, archaic) That which causes such a feeling.
** c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy […]
** 1872, Robert Browning, Fifine at the Fair, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 5, page 4:The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy; […]

##### Synonyms

* (both senses) annoyance

##### Translations
### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “annoy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “annoy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Yonan, anyon, noyan, yanno

## Middle English
### Noun

annoy
* Alternative form of anoy
** [c. 1360s (date written)​, Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Romaunt of the Rose”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / […] In such annoy contynuely.(please add an English translation of this quotation)]