7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
adjective causing or able to cause nausea
adjective offensively malodorous
originFrom Middle English noysom; equivalent to noy + -some (short for annoy, from an(n)oien, enoien from Anglo-Norman anuier, from Old French enuier (French ennuyer), from Late Latin inodiare, from in- (intensive prefix) + odium (“hate”)).
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