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▪ I. annoying, vbl. n.|əˈnɔɪɪŋ| [f. annoy v. + -ing1.] The giving of trouble or vexation; annoyance. (Now gerundial.)
c1330Arth. & Merl. 4470 No might do with hir wicheing In Inglond non anoiing. 1566T. Stapleton Ret. Untr. Jewel iii. 116 To whom euery light discorde is a great anoying. 1712Addison Spect. No. 441 ⁋2 Every Thing that is capable of annoying or offending us. ▪ II. aˈnnoying, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] Troubling, disturbing, causing annoyance.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. v. 22 Anoienge folk treden, and þat vnryȝtfully, in þe nekkes of holy men. 1593T. Watson Poems (Arb.) 187 Annoying sorrowes..Assaild my thoughts. 1753Hervey Theron & Asp. (1755) I. 94 Screened them from the annoying sun-beams. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt (1868) 37 He found Jermyn's manner annoying. |