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annoyer en · NOUN

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-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin inodiāre Old French enoiierbor. Middle English anoyen English annoy Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English annoyer From annoy + -er.

Meanings

1. One who annoys.
   • This Authoure alſo writeth, that the Piſmires are wicked annoyers to trees, which the Gardener or Huſbandman ſayeth hee, maye force to forſake and leaue, if he beſtrike the neather partes of the Trees round aboute with the powder of the Ruddell, and Liquide pitche or Tarre, mixed togither, […] 1577, Dydymus Mountaine [pseudonym; Thomas Hill], Henry Dethicke [i.e., Henry Dethick], “The Artfull Inuentions and Helpes againste the Garden Moles, Antes, Gnattes, Flies, and Frogges, Euerting, Harming and Wasting as well Kitchen Hearbes, as Trees and Fruites”, in The Gardeners Labyrinth: […], London: […] Henry Bynneman, →OCLC, page 57:
   • He was a great annoyer of girls, and he was a coward, and he had always wished to be an amateur bullfighter. 1940, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 10, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, London: Jonathan Cape, page 110:
   • It is not therefore without reaſon, that the Aſiatics, who live in regions where ſerpents greatly abound, wear boots and long cloaths, which very well protect their lower parts from the accidental reſentment of their reptile annoyers. 1791, Oliver Goldsmith, “Of Venemous Serpents in General”, in An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature. […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] F[rancis] Wingrave, successor to Mr. [John] Nourse, […], →OCLC, page 186:

Forms

Translations (2)

pt irritador (one who annoys) · pt irritante (one who annoys)