Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Annoyance; trouble.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Annoyance.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic The state of being annoyed; distress, irritation.
  • noun archaic The act of annoying; molestation.
  • noun law, obsolete Nuisance.

Etymologies

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Partly an aphetic form of annoyance, partly directly from Anglo-Norman noyance.

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Examples

  • Ai waz nawt ebber gunna get it cut… but iz dribing me crazee coz deeling wif critters ai haz tu keep it back an up an ebreefing, an it take fureber tu drai ebree nite, an an an… it just ekstra noyance rite nao.

    part cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Tathagres responded inaudibly but her gesture bespoke an-noyance.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • Tathagres 'lids flicked open, violet eyes narrowed with an-noyance.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • She twitched an ear at him in an expression of an - noyance, but it lacked force.

    Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988

  • The Worm reacted automatically, turning on this an - noyance.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • As stated above, for the critics ambiguity represented an an - noyance in the cognitive process that was to be elimi - nated as quickly as the rules of logic would permit.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas TOM TASHIRO 1968

  • He felt irrational an­noyance-hell, these sailors acted as though they'd been here all the time!

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • When a truckle - bed with a sick man (some invalid agent from up - country) was put in there, he exhibited a gentle an - noyance.

    Heart of Darkness 1960

  • One chronicler, Fabyan, thus describes the change: -- "So great peace there came upon this kingdom, that a woman might have gone from one town to another without grief or noyance."

    Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

  • After, when the holy maid knew that there should come to Limoges a lord named Steven, which was lord of all the province from the river of Rhone unto the sea, she was sore afraid lest he would do to her any grief or noyance against her vow, and gave away all her riches to poor folk for the love of God.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

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