English

Adjective

noyous ‎(comparative more noyous, superlative most noyous)

1. (now rare, archaic) Troublesome; harmful, injurious.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter viij, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     Faire lordes sayd she for goddes loue torne ageyne yf ye may / for ye be come vnto youre dethe / Nay they sayd we wille not torne ageyne / for he shalle helpe vs in whos seruyse we ben entred in / Thenne as they stode talkynge / there came knyghtes wel armed and bad hem yelde them or els to dye / that yeldyng sayd they shal be noyous to yow

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen, Bk.I, Cn.V:

     The false Duessa leauing noyous Night, / Returnd to stately pallace of dame Pride […].