different between doy vs noy

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

doy

1. Disdainful indication that something is obvious; see duh.

   Wow, he looks pretty angry. - Doy!

Usage notes

Often intentionally drawled for emphasis.

Synonyms

• obviously!
• duh
• no duh (Australian, American)
• no shit (Sherlock)
• you don't say
• no kidding

Anagrams

• yod

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin d? (“I give”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?doi/, [?d?oi?]
• Rhymes: -oi

Verb

doy

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of dar.

English

Etymology

Partly aphetic form of annoy, partly directly from Anglo-Norman noier, nuier.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??/

Verb

noy (third-person singular simple present noys, present participle noying, simple past and past participle noyed)

1. (now rare, dialectal) To annoy; to harm or injure. [from 14th c.]
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     That is Mede þe Mayde quod she · hath noyed me ful oft / And ylakked my lemman.]

   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, II:

     "In Normandie was he noght / Noyed for my sake; / Ac thow thiself soothly / Shamedest hym ofte, / Crope into a cabane1740 / For cold of thi nayles, / Wendest that wynter / Wolde han y-lasted evere, / And dreddest to be ded / For a dym cloude, / And hyedest homward / For hunger of thi wombe."]

Alternative forms

• noie (obsolete)

Noun

noy

1. (obsolete) annoyance

Anagrams

• Yon, yon

Catalan

Noun

noy m (plural noys)

1. Obsolete spelling of noi

Further reading

• “noy” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.