Crossword clues for annoy
annoy
- Get under one's skin
- Grate on
- Really get to
- Get at
- Be a bother to
- Be a pain in the neck
- Drive bananas
- Be a thorn in the side of
- Be a nuisance to
- Be a pain to
- Be a noodge to
- Rile or rankle
- Drive bonkers
- Bug the hell out of
- Be a pest to
- What gnats do
- Be on the back of
- What sing-alonger will do
- What rowdy concergoer will do
- What pests do
- What concert talker next to you will do, perhaps
- What an onslaught of political ads may do
- What a bad song will do
- Rattle someone's cage
- Needle, say
- Nark — nettle
- Make someone hit themselves and say "Stop hitting yourself" over and over, say
- Keep poking, perhaps
- Get under the collar of
- Follow someone around all day repeating any one word
- Cause to kvetch
- Bug the heck out of
- Bug to no end
- Tick off
- Tee off
- Bother persistently
- Harass
- Perturb
- Hassle
- Irk like crazy
- Needle, perhaps
- Plague
- Needle or nettle
- Get to or put out
- Really bother
- Vex
- Pester
- Irritate, displease
- Get to, in a way
- Trouble
- Nettle
- Discommode
- Make angry
- No time for speaker to get angry
- Needle and lead missing from PA system
- Nark - nettle
- Bug? There's a small number in a place over the pond
- Bug in PA system? Time's lost
- Bother man, non-Tory, on regular basis
- Irritate using a word of refusal in New York
- Trouble caused by a small number in New York
- Rub the wrong way
- Put out
- Get one's goat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Annoy \An*noy"\ ([a^]n*noi"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annoyed ([a^]n*noid"); p. pr. & vb. n. Annoying.] [OE. anoien, anuien, OF. anoier, anuier, F. ennuyer, fr. OF. anoi, anui, enui, annoyance, vexation, F. ennui. See Annoy, n.] To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.
Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy
Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
--Prior.
2. To molest, incommode, or harm; as, to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade.
Syn: To molest; vex; trouble; pester; embarrass; perplex; tease.
Annoy \An*noy"\, n. [OE. anoi, anui, OF. anoi, anui, enui, fr. L. in odio hatred (esse alicui in odio, Cic.). See Ennui, Odium, Noisome, Noy.] A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes; also, whatever causes such a feeling; as, to work annoy.
Worse than Tantalus' is her annoy.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., from Anglo-French anuier, Old French enoiier, anuier "to weary, vex, anger; be troublesome or irksome to," from Late Latin inodiare "make loathsome," from Latin (esse) in odio "(it is to me) hateful," ablative of odium "hatred" (see odium). Earliest form of the word in English was as a noun, c.1200, "feeling of irritation, displeasure, distaste." Related: Annoyed; annoying; annoyingly. Middle English also had annoyful and annoyous (both late 14c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare literary English) A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes. 2 (context now rare literary English) That which causes such a feeling. vb. (context transitive English) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
WordNet
Usage examples of "annoy".
You are therefore aware now that my friend was a witness of all we did and said during the first night that we spent together, but do not let that annoy you, for you pleased him in everything, in your behaviour towards me as well as in the witty sayings which you uttered to make me laugh.
As if they had laid a plot to vex and annoy me, Clementine had made room for him.
She swore mentally at them, sure they were doing it on purpose to annoy her.
It merely sought to annoy us into leaving, so it could have our wounded.
I should not be sorry, I confess, to have to finish altogether with these marsh-birds, who annoy me with their cries.
I very much hope that you will regret yours, Mrs Mitchell, trying to humiliate my mother as a way to annoy me.
Hannah Mitchell wittering on about a letter from Canada, or Peter Murphy who wanted to have a cocktail party to annoy Geraldine.
Please remove the hemp to a place sufficiently distant from the house, so that its bad smell may not annoy the spirits to be evoked by me, and let the air be purified by the discharge of gunpowder.
In the evening we all went to a ball, and there the Corticelli, who was always trying to annoy me, danced as no young lady would dance.
I should only annoy the ladies and tire myself in waiting for some chance favour if I stayed, I bade them adieu and returned to Sulzbach the next morning.
Just now they are trying to annoy me with posters on the walls, but I take no notice.
He had managed to annoy everyone, provoking his sister Yllana, his foster-sister Alanna, and Ida Davidson, who was usually impervious to the behavior of adolescents.
Lew Alton asked with a kind of silky insolence that never failed to annoy Javanne.
She answered their anxious questions as to just when she would be coming back with a cheerfulness which wholly deceived them, begged them to be good children and do as Nanny told them and not to annoy their papa, and kissed them with a secret sorrow that it might be a long time, perhaps never, before she saw them again.
Truthfully, I had no idea whether the paper was really that damned interesting, or whether he was simply keeping me standing in order to try and annoy me.