anoyen

• annoyen, annye, anoye, a-noy, any, enoye
• anuye, a-nuyȝen, enuye (mostly East Anglia or West Midland)

Borrowed from Old French enoiier (and variants thereof), from Late Latin inodiāre.

• IPA^(key): /aˈnui̯ən/, /aˈniːən/, /ɛ-/
• IPA^(key): /aˈnyː(ə)/ (Southern, West Midland)

anoyen (third-person singular simple present anoyeth, present participle anoyende, anoyynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle anoyed)

1. To bother; to annoy or irritate:
   1. To be annoying or injurious.
   2. To be annoyed or irritated.
2. To harass or trouble.
3. To hurt; to cause injury.
4. To fear; to be troubled.
5. (rare) To wear out; to exhaust.

• The aphetic form noyen is more common in Middle English.

• anoy
• anoyaunce
• anoyous

• English: annoy

• “anoien, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.