noisome: [14] Noisome has no etymological connection with noise. Its closest English relative is annoy. This had a shortened from noy ‘trouble, annoy, harm’, current from the 13th to the 17th centuries, which was combined with the suffix -some to form noysome, later noisome, ‘harmful’. => annoy
noisome (adj.)
late 14c., "harmful, noxious," from noye "harm, misfortune," shortened form of anoi "annoyance" (from Old French anoier, see annoy) + -some (1). Meaning "bad-smelling" first recorded 1570s. Related: Noisomeness.
双语例句
1. His noisome reputation for corruption had already begun to spread.
他贪污的恶名已经四处传播开了。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks.
难闻的蒸汽由船坞中余留的泥浆散发出来。
来自辞典例句
3. The air is infected with noisome gases.
空气受到了有害气体的污染.
来自辞典例句
4. I destroy all noisome and rank weeds , I keep down all pestilent vapours.
我摧毁了一切丛生的毒草,控制一切有害的烟雾.
来自辞典例句
5. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and the noisome pestilence.
