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.
雙語例句
1. His noisome reputation for corruption had already begun to spread.
他貪污的惡名已經四處傳播開了。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Noisome vapours arise from the mud left in the docks.
難聞的蒸汽由船塢中余留的泥漿散發出來。
來自辭典例句
3. The air is infected with noisome gases.
空氣受到了有害氣體的污染.
來自辭典例句
4. I destroy all noisome and rank weeds , I keep down all pestilent vapours.
我摧毀了一切叢生的毒草,控制一切有害的煙霧.
來自辭典例句
5. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and the noisome pestilence.