annoy
verb
[ əˈnɔɪ ]
• make (someone) a little angry; irritate.
• "the decision really annoyed him"
Similar:
irritate,
vex,
make angry,
make cross,
anger,
exasperate,
irk,
gall,
pique,
put out,
displease,
get/put someone's back up,
antagonize,
get on someone's nerves,
rub up the wrong way,
ruffle,
ruffle someone's feathers,
make someone's hackles rise,
raise someone's hackles,
enrage,
infuriate,
madden,
make someone's blood boil,
drive to distraction,
goad,
provoke,
aggravate,
peeve,
hassle,
miff,
rile,
nettle,
needle,
get,
get to,
bug,
hack off,
get under someone's skin,
get in someone's hair,
get someone's goat,
rattle someone's cage,
drive mad/crazy,
drive round the bend/twist,
drive up the wall,
make someone see red,
wind up,
nark,
get across,
get on someone's wick,
get up someone's nose,
give someone the hump,
tee off,
tick off,
burn up,
rankle,
ride,
gravel,
bum out,
rark,
give someone the pip,
get someone's dander up,
exacerbate,
hump,
rasp,
irritated,
cross,
angry,
vexed,
exasperated,
irked,
piqued,
displeased,
fed up,
disgruntled,
in a bad mood,
in a temper,
testy,
in high dudgeon,
huffy,
in a huff,
resentful,
aggrieved,
furious,
irate,
infuriated,
incensed,
enraged,
wrathful,
choleric,
aggravated,
peeved,
nettled,
miffed,
miffy,
mad,
riled,
hacked off,
peed off,
hot under the collar,
foaming at the mouth,
• harm or attack repeatedly.
• "a gallant Saxon, who annoyed this Coast"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘be hateful to’): from Old French anoier (verb), anoi (noun), based on Latin in odio in the phrase mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me’.
