A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Anoy, Annoy, v. [ME. anoye, anoie (14th c., earlier anuye), annoye, OF. anoier, anuier.]
1. tr. To trouble, distress, or vex.1375 Barb. i. 272 (dede anoyis him bot anys); xiii. 510 (the kyng sumdeill anoyit was). a1400 Leg. S. xvi. 597 (be nocht anoyt gyf thi wyf slepe); xxiv. 351 (he wes anoyt & mad wa). c1420 Wynt. ii. 398 (thai talde how thai ware anoyid). c1420 Ratis R. 1165 (he sal oft anoyt be). 15.. Clar. iii. 238 (he that with melancholie was anoyit). a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxxix. 86 (thai can nocht annoy thi saull).
2. To annoy, irritate.1375 Barb. vi. 5 (tharfor anoyit sair he wes); xvii. 265. a1400 Leg. S. xxxi. 464 (quhen Cesar that sene had, he wes anoyt). c1420 Wynt. viii. 4868 (a damyselle … wipyt the wall … To gere thaim mare anoyid be). a1500 Seven S. 1402 (than was the lord gretly anoyit). c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 584 (sair annoyit of that discomfitour).
