[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Troubling, disturbing, causing annoyance.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., I. v. 22. Anoienge folk treden, and þat vnryȝtfully, in þe nekkes of holy men.
1593. T. Watson, Poems (Arb.), 187. Annoying sorrowes … Assaild my thoughts.
1753. Hervey, Theron & Asp. (1755), I. 94. Screened them from the annoying sun-beams.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt (1868), 37. He found Jermyn’s manner annoying.
