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annoy

verb
/əˈnoɪ̯/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Proto-Italic *odjom Latin odium Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin inodiāre Old French enoiierbor. Middle English anoyen English annoy 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.

  1. derived from odium — “loathing, hatred”
  2. derived from inodio — “to make loathsome”
  3. derived from enoiier — “to bother, disturb”
  4. inherited from anoyen

Definitions

  1. To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts

    To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

    • Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.
    • 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.
    • 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.

  2. To molest

    To molest; to harm; to injure.

    • to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
    • tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
    • Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

  3. A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.

    • VVe that ſuffer long anoy / Are contented vvith a thought / Through an idle fancie vvrought / O let my ioyes have ſome abiding.
    • [I]f she says he was defeated, why he had better, a great deal, have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. That which causes such a feeling.

      • Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy […]
      • The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy; […]

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at annoy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at annoy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at annoy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA