A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Noy, v. Also: noye. Pres. t. also nois. P.t. and p.p. also noyt. [ME. and e.m.E. noy(e (Manning, Wyclif), noi(e (c 1400), ME. also nuy(e (c 1300), ny(e (14th c.), OF. noire, nuire: cf. also Anoy v., Ennoy v.]
1. tr. To hurt, harm, injure; to molest, harass, oppress.Also b. intr. const. to or till, and c. absol.1375 Barb. xviii. 554.
Byrnand, slayand and distroyand, Thair fayis vith thair mycht noyand Ib. vi. 666. a1400 Leg. S. ii. 171.
Nero … bad That nane suld noy Cristine mare Ib. xx. 263.
To thame sa noyt ane angel thane, To confort thame, come of hewyne c1420 Wynt. ii. 810.
Noyid c1450 Cr. Deyng (S.T.S.) 61.
Quhat temtacioune at euir the deuill putis to man sal nocht noy hyme bot gyf [etc.] 1456 Hay II. 139/32.
Calde water … genderis stopping in the breste and noyis the longis c1500 Barounis Lawis ii.
Throw haterent quhen the iuge noys ony innocent throu inimitie 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. 1421.
To noy the small the greit beistis had na will a1508 Kennedy Flyt. 344.
Thou … blaberis that noyis mennis eris to here 1533 Bell. Livy I. 179/1.
Noyit Ib. 8/1. 1533 Gau 33/8.
Noyt 1535 Stewart 37768.
The puir pepill war haillelie distroyit, Wedowis and wyffis wrangit war and noyit a1538 Abell 77 a.
The thingis that ar desirit be the wiche that is to noy men bestis and corne Ib. 87 a.
Nathing noyis halie kirk sa mekill [etc.] a1568 Scott i. 124.
Bakbytand nychtbouris, noyand thame in nwikis 1558-66 Knox I. 204. 1589 Calderwood V. 24. 1592 Cal. Sc. P. X. 826.
[In any thought or deed that may] noy [his majesty's life or person]b. 1456 Hay I. 30/20.
That the commandement was maid to thai loungoutis that thai suld nocht noy to the treis [etc.] a1500 Bk. Chess 5.
Saturnus … Crabit felloun and noyand till euery thing c1510 Prester John 311 b.
Thar is na pepill that nois to thame bot thar cumis fovllis [etc.]c. a1400 Leg. S. xlv. 264.
Aspidis til hir papis socht & sukyt thame & noyt nocht c1420 Wynt. v. 5338.
Thow wrech ga … and noy na ma In to this stede c1490 Porteous Noblenes 178/29.
Ane noble may wele call him catif … that in his doyngis noyis a1538 Abell 109 b.
At thare is na pestilence prolusar to noy na ane familiar enyme a1570-86 Maitl. F. xlv. 44. c1590 Fowler I. 294/88.
2. To molest or trouble mentally; to vex, distress; to annoy, irritate, anger. (With non-personal subject.)Also absol.The examples with do under (2) might alternatively be taken as Noy n.(1) ?1438 Alex. ii. 7439.
How it me noyis That Clarus this ȝour land destroyis a1500 Quare Jel. 15.
A thing the quhich that noyith me full sore That for to rest availith me no more 1560 Rolland Seven S. 7448.
This ȝe mark not … Bot it noyis me inwart in euerie part 1596 Dalr. II. 180/31.
Quhilk noyet him the mair that he feirit … the Scotis walde helpe Franceabsol. 1375 Barb. xx. 506 (E).
Bot to tell off thair sorowyng It noyis and heipis litill thing ?1438 Alex. ii. 6379.
The presoun lestis and noys sa [F. la prison dure tant](2) a1500 K. Hart 453.
It dois me noy … That [etc.] 1540 Lynd. Sat. 1201.
It does me noy ȝour lamentatioun c1550 Id. Meldrum 698.
Thocht his departing did thame noy
b. In passive: To be troubled or distressed; (more commonly,) to be incensed or angry.a1400 Leg. S. xl. 330.
Ȝet wes he noyt … That haly kirk suld sclaunderit be ?1438 Alex. i. 341.
Emynedvs sair noyit was a1500 Lanc. 471.
Than was he wroth in to his self and noyt a1500 K. Hart 632.
For of ȝour harme God wait gif I be noyit 1535 Stewart 20467.
So noyit he wes with sic melancolie That [etc.] c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2779.
Off that King Nynus wes so noyit [That, etc.] 1560 Rolland Seven S. 1348.
The king was noyit to se hir mak sic cair Ib. 5433, 7399. 1596 Dalr. II. 218/15. Ib. I. 174/11, II. 53/7.
For ane thing in special the King was verie noyet and maist sorie, that Dauid Falconar … was slane
c. reflex. and intr. To vex oneself, to grieve.a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 823.
Noy you noght at his note 1535 Stewart 35302.
Ilk da by da he studeit moir and noyit
