Bother

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bother \Both"er\, v. i.
     To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be
     troublesome.
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           Without bothering about it.              --H. James.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bother \Both"er\, n.
     One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or
     annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble;
     as, to be in a bother.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bother \Both"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bothered} (?); p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Bothering}.] [Cf. Ir. buaidhirt trouble, buaidhrim I
     vex.]
     To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See {Pother}.
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     Note: The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation
           mildly imprecatory.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bother
       n 1: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they
            had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: {fuss}, {trouble},
             {hassle}]
       2: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of
          unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got
          a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend,
          he's an infliction" [syn: {annoyance}, {botheration}, {pain},
           {infliction}, {pain in the neck}, {pain in the ass}]
       v 1: take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "He did
            not trouble to call his mother on her birthday"; "Don't
            bother, please" [syn: {trouble oneself}, {trouble}, {inconvenience
            oneself}]
       2: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor
          irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers
          me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after
          she leaves" [syn: {annoy}, {rag}, {get to}, {get at}, {irritate},
           {rile}, {nark}, {nettle}, {gravel}, {vex}, {chafe}, {devil}]
       3: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble
          you, but..." [syn: {trouble}, {put out}, {inconvenience},
          {disoblige}, {discommode}, {incommode}]
       4: intrude or enter uninvited; "Don't bother the professor
          while she is grading term papers"
       5: make nervous or agitated; "The mere thought of her bothered
          him and made his heart beat faster"
       6: make confused or perplexed or puzzled

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  308 Moby Thesaurus words for "bother":
     abash, abrade, abuse a privilege, addle, addle the wits, ado,
     afflict, aggravate, aggravation, agitate, agitation, ail, annoy,
     annoyance, anxiety, awkwardness, bad news, badger, baffle,
     bafflement, bait, ball up, be at, be the matter, becloud, bedazzle,
     bedevil, bedevilment, befuddle, befuddlement, beset, besetment,
     bewilder, bewilderment, bore, botheration, bothersomeness, brawl,
     bristle, broil, brouhaha, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burden,
     burdening, burn up, burst, bustle, can of worms, chafe, chaos,
     charging, chivy, cloud, clumsiness, commotion, complicate matters,
     concern, confoundment, confuse, confusion, crashing bore, daze,
     dazzle, demand, devil, devilment, difficulty, dilemma,
     disaccommodate, disadvantage, discombobulate, discombobulation,
     discomfit, discomfiture, discomfort, discommode, discommodity,
     discompose, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness,
     disconcertion, disconcertment, dismay, disoblige, disorder,
     disorganization, disorganize, disorient, disorientation, disquiet,
     distemper, distress, disturb, disturbance, dither, dog, dogging,
     donnybrook, donnybrook fair, downer, drag, dustup, effort,
     embarrass, embarrassment, embroilment, encroach upon, enigma,
     entangle, evil, exaction, exasperate, exasperation, exercise, fash,
     feery-fary, ferment, fidgetiness, fit, fix, flap, flummox, flurry,
     fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteriness, fog,
     foofaraw, fracas, frazzle, free-for-all, freighting, frenzy, fret,
     fuddle, fuddlement, fuss, fuss at, fussiness, get, give concern,
     great ado, gripe, harass, harassment, harry, harrying, hassle,
     haze, headache, heckle, hector, helter-skelter, hound, hounding,
     hubbub, hullabaloo, impose on, impose upon, imposing an onus,
     imposition, incommode, incommodity, inconsiderateness,
     inconvenience, inconveniency, inconvenientness, infliction, irk,
     irritant, irritate, irritation, jam, jumble, lather, laying on,
     load with care, loading, loading down, maelstrom, make free with,
     matter, maze, melee, mess, miff, mist, mix up, moider, molest,
     molestation, muddle, muddlement, mystery, nag, needle, nettle,
     nonplus, nudge, nudzh, nuisance, obtrude upon, obtrusiveness,
     overstep, pain, peck of troubles, peeve, pell-mell, perplex,
     perplexity, persecute, persecution, perturb, perturbation, pest,
     pester, pet, pick on, pickle, pique, plague, plight,
     pluck the beard, pother, predicament, presume on, presume upon,
     presumptuousness, problem, provoke, pucker, put out,
     put to inconvenience, put to it, put to trouble, puzzle,
     puzzlement, quandary, racket, raise hell, rampage, rattle,
     restlessness, riddle, ride, rile, riot, roil, rough-and-tumble,
     roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble, scrape,
     sea of troubles, shindy, shuffle, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat,
     swirl, swivet, take a liberty, take liberties, tasking, taxing,
     tease, throw into confusion, tizzy, to-do, torment, trial, trouble,
     troublesomeness, try the patience, tumult, turmoil, tweak the nose,
     twitter, twitteration, unassuredness, unhandiness, unhinge,
     unquiet, unsettle, unsettlement, unwarranted demand, unwieldiness,
     uproar, upset, vex, vexation, vexatiousness, vortex, weighting,
     whirl, worriment, worry