annoying

Etymology

annoy + -ing

adj

  1. Causing irritation or annoyance; troublesome; vexatious.
    Vandals are really annoying.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of annoy

noun

  1. (rare) That which annoys; an annoyance.
    […] they lose the true spirit of Christianity; and, while their heads are filled with clouds of mysticism, and the smoke of metaphysical nonsense, their hearts are filled with uncharitableness and bitter annoyings. 1865, William Buell Sprague, Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit

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