annoy

verb

annoy, causing bother, bothered by something

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˈnoɪ̯/ / [əˈnoɪ̯] / /əˈnɔɪ̯/

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English anoy English annoy From Middle English anoy, from Old French enui. Doublet of ennui.

A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
“VVe that ſuffer long anoy / Are contented vvith a thought / Through an idle fancie vvrought / O let my ioyes have ſome abiding.”
“[I]f she says he was defeated, why he had better, a great deal, have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy.”
That which causes such a feeling.
“Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy […]”
“The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy; […]”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Proto-Italic *odjom Latin odium Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin inodiāre Old French enoiierbor. Middle English anoyen English annoy From Middle English anoyen, from Old French anoier (“to bother, disturb”), from Late Latin inodiāre (“to make loathsome”), derived from Latin odium (“loathing, hatred”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan, gremman.

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
“Marc loved his sister, but when she annoyed him he wanted to switch her off.”
“Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, / This painted child of dirt that stinks and stings; / Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, / Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'r enjoys.”
To molest; to harm; to injure.
“to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade”
“tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them”