different between nob vs noy

English

Etymology

Pronunciation spelling of knob.

Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: n?b, IPA^(key): /n?b/
• (US) enPR: n?b, IPA^(key): /n?b/
• Rhymes: -?b
• Homophone: knob

Noun

nob (plural nobs)

1. (now only in slang) The head.

   Jack and Jill went up the hill / to fetch a pail of water; / Jack fell down and broke his crown / and Jill came tumbling after. / Up Jack got and home did trot, / as fast as he could caper, / to old Dame Dob / to mend his nob / with vinegar and brown paper.

2. (cribbage) A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer. (See also nibs.)

   One for his nob.

3. (slang) The glans penis, the sensitive bulbous structure at the end of the penis also known as the head of the penis. (Also spelled knob.)
4. (slang, chiefly Britain) a wealthy or influential person; a toff
   • 1989, Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, Blackadder Goes Forth

     The masses have risen up and shot all their nobs.

Translations

Verb

nob (third-person singular simple present nobs, present participle nobbing, simple past and past participle nobbed)

1. (informal) To hit in the head

Anagrams

• BN(O), BNO, BON, Bon, Bön

Wolof

Verb

nob

1. to love

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.