noysome
English
Adjective
noysome (comparative more noysome, superlative most noysome)
- Obsolete form of noisome.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- The rampant Lyon hunts he fast ,
With dogges of noysome breath
- 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall. […], new edition, London: […] B. Law, […]; Penzance, Cornwall: J. Hewett, published 1769, →OCLC:
- There swimmeth also in the Sea, a round slymie substance, called a Blobber, reputed noysome to the fish.
Middle English
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