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Noyed vs Nayed - What's the difference?

noyed | nayed |

As verbs the difference between noyed and nayed

is that noyed is past tense of noy while nayed is past tense of nay.

noyed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (noy)

    • noy

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To annoy; to vex.
    • (Piers Plowman)
  • * Spenser
    • All that noyed his heavy spright.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) That which annoys.
    • (Piers Plowman)
    (Webster 1913)

    nayed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nay)

    • nay

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (archaic) no

    • Derived terms

    * nay-say * naysayer

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • or even, or more like, or should I say. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
  • * His face was dirty, nay filthy.
  • * 1663 ,
    • [...] And proved not only horse, but cows, / Nay pigs, were of the elder house: / For beasts, when man was but a piece / Of earth himself, did th' earth possess.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 18.
    • And even in our wildest and most wandering reveries, nay in our very dreams, we shall find, if we reflect, that the imagination ran not altogether at adventures,

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vote against.
    • I vote nay , even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.
  • A person who voted against.
    • The vote is 4 in favor and 20 opposed, the nays have it.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To refuse.
    • (Holinshed)

    Adjective

  • nary

    • Anagrams

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