different between noy vs poy

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.

English

Etymology

From Old French poi (“small hill”), from Latin podium.

Noun

poy (plural poys)

1. A support structure.
2. A balancing pole used by tightrope walkers.
3. A long pole, normally with a hook, used to push barges upstream.

Related terms

• teapoy

Anagrams

• PYO, Pyo, YOP, pyo-, yop

Middle French

Etymology

Old French poi

Adverb

poy

1. little; not much; not a lot

Related terms

• poy plus poy moins

Descendants

• French: peu