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annoy
English
Etymology
From Middle English annoien, anoien, enoien, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman anuier, Old French enuier (“to molest, harm, tire”), from Late Latin inodi? (“cause aversion, make hateful”, verb), from the phrase in odi? (“hated”), from Latin odium (“hatred”). Doublet of ennui. Displaced native Middle English grillen (“to annoy, irritate”), from Old English grillan (see grill).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n??/
- Rhymes: -??
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.
- 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?
- 1691, Matthew Prior, Pastoral to Dr. Turner, Bishop of Ely
- (intransitive) To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
- (transitive) 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
Synonyms
- (to disturb or irritate) bother, bug, hassle, irritate, pester, nag, irk
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Antonyms
- please
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Related terms
Translations
Noun
annoy (plural annoys)
- (now rare, literary) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
- 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose:
- I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.
- c. 1610, John Fletcher, “Sleep”:
- We that suffer long annoy / Are contented with a thought / Through an idle fancy wrought: / O let my joys have some abiding!
- 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose:
- (now rare, literary) That which causes such a feeling.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Rchard III, IV.2:
- Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].
- 1872, Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair, V:
- The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy [...].
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Rchard III, IV.2:
Synonyms
- (both senses) annoyance
Translations
References
- annoy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- annoy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Yonan, anyon, noyan, yanno
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chiack
English
Alternative forms
- chyack
Etymology
From chi-ike.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?aijæk/, /t?aijæk/
Verb
chiack (third-person singular simple present chiacks, present participle chiacking, simple past and past participle chiacked)
- (Australia) To taunt or tease in jest.
- 1987, Sheila Anderson, End of the Season, in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson (editors), Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women, page 45,
- They were cheerful enough, liked a bit of chiacking, and the women enjoyed the bawdy undertones of their jokes.
- 2008, Helen Garner, The Art of the Dumb Question, in True Stories: Selected Non-Fiction, page 13,
- Most poignantly of all, though, when I get fed up with working alone, I remember Victorian high school staffrooms of the sixties and seventies: the rigid hierarchy with its irritations, but also the chiacking, the squabbles, the timely advice from some old stager with a fag drooping off his lip.
- 2008, Graeme Blundell, The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts, 2011, unnumbered page,
- We believed Melbourne?s two most extraordinary institutions were those of chiacking – taking the piss – and larrikinism. Although the latter would develop derogatory connotations, and chiacking was already beginning to die a slow death, sometimes perceived as offensive in its more alcoholic forms, especially by the women in our group.
- 1987, Sheila Anderson, End of the Season, in Anna Gibbs, Alison Tilson (editors), Frictions, An Anthology of Fiction by Women, page 45,
- (Britain) To taunt maliciously.
- The gang of youths chiacked the academic.
Synonyms
- hound
- taunt
- jeer
References
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