Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to irritate, to annoy.

1848		Bell’s Life in Sydney 1 July 3/3: Mr Burley then stated as he was ‘aggrawoked’ to do it.
1895		Cootamundra Herald (NSW) 16 Jan. 3/2: Such a state of things was very ‘agranoying’.
1895		‘’Arry on Harry’ in Punch 24 Aug. 93/2: Yah! Pack up your ribbings, and aitches, and don’t aggranoy me no more.
1900		Hillston Spectator (NSW) 16 June 4/3: Besides its agranoying to those who want the billet.
1900–10		Stephens & O’Brien Materials for a Dict. of Aus. Sl. [unpub. ms.] 2: AGROVOKE, AGRONOY: humorous twistings of provoke and annoy and aggravate.
1901		Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 22 May 7/1: It has become quite a common thing to see and hear such statements as sub quo, de novo and so on, that make us poor non-Latinists feel agranoyed and think a bit (a dangerous thing for some of us) before we know what is meant.
1905		Sun (Kalgoorlie) 7 May. 1/1: [They say] That the flaunting females from Paree and Brussels are thereby much agranoyed.
1910		Cornhill Mag. vol. CI n.p.: That gal of mine is that aggrannoying, she won't get up of a morning.
1911		Sun. Times (Perth) 30 Jul. 3/2: Also, there are aggranoyed fathers of damaged flappers who might regard Monty the Dove as a bird of evil omen/and one to be kicked vigorously in the vicinity of the vertebrae.
1927		Forbes Advocate (NSW) 28 Oct. 2/2: You place the ball like this, you make a swipe and miss, / It’s really aggranoying.
1930		Sun. Times (Perth) 15 June 8/: Canberra is indignant / And greatly aggranoyed; / The rubber stamps are rancored / And far from overjoyed.
1936		Western Mail (Perth) 20 Feb. 33/3: Everyone around is [...] anxiously scanning the sky clouds form [...] and it is so ‘agranoying’ they just go away again, letting our hopes down with a thump.
1945		Baker Aus. Lang.