词汇 | noisome |
词源 | noisome. Many people on first encountering this word be- lieve it means “noisy,” but noisome has no connection with the word noise. Noisome, which means “offensive or disgusting, noxious,” was formed from the Middle English noy, harm or annoyance,” and the suffix some, in the sense of “characterized by some quality.” |
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