1. irritate (someone); make (someone) a little angry: "your damned cheerfulness has always annoyed me"
▪ harm or attack repeatedly:"a gallant Saxon, who annoyed this Coast"
Word OriginMiddle 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’.