Jade vs Annoy - What's the difference?
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(senseid)(uncountable) A semiprecious stone either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
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A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
To tire, weary or fatigue
* John Locke
(obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
(obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.
* Shakespeare
To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
* Prior
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To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
To molest; to harm; to injure.
* Evelyn
A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
* 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose :
* 1870 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sciety and Solitude :
That which causes such a feeling.
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, King Rchard III , IV.2:
* 1872 , Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair, V:
Jade is a related term of annoy.
As nouns the difference between jade and annoy
is that jade is ice cream while annoy is a feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.As a verb annoy is
to disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.jade
English
(wikipedia jade)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), error for earlierNoun
(en-noun)citation, passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade .}}
Derived terms
{{der3, jade gate , jade green , jade plant , jade stalk , jadeite , pseudojade}}See also
(other terms of interest) * californite * greenstone * nephrite * yulan *Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl), either a variant of (m)Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 1134942168, 2006) or merely influenced by it. .Per Thorson, ''Anglo-Norse studies: an inquiry into the Scandinavian elements in the modern English dialects'', volume 1 (1936), page 52: "Yad sb. Sc Nhb Lakel Yks Lan, also in forms ''yaad'', ''yaud'', ''yawd'', ''yoad'', ''yod(e)''.... [jad, o] 'a work-horse, a mare' etc. ON ''jalda'' 'made', Sw. dial. ''jäldä'', from Finnish ''elde'' (FT p. 319, Torp p. 156 fol.). Eng. ''jade'' is not related."''Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research'', page 18: "There is thus no etymological connection between ME. ''j?de'' MnE. ''jade'' and ME. ''jald'' MnE. dial. ''yaud etc. But the two words have influenced each other mutually, both formally and semantically." See (m) for more.Synonyms
* (old horse) yaudVerb
(jad)- The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
- (Shakespeare)
- I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* jadedReferences
annoy
English
Verb
(en verb)- Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
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- 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
Synonyms
* (to disturb or irritate) bother, bug, hassle, irritate, pester, nag, irk * See alsoAntonyms
* pleaseNoun
(en noun)- I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.
- if she says he was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy .
- 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 [...].