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Bother   /bˈɑðər/   Listen
Bother

verb
(past & past part. bothered; pres. part. bothering)
1.
Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself.  Synonyms: inconvenience oneself, trouble, trouble oneself.  "Don't bother, please"
2.
Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.  Synonyms: annoy, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex.  "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"
3.
To cause inconvenience or discomfort to.  Synonyms: discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble.
4.
Intrude or enter uninvited.
5.
Make nervous or agitated.
6.
Make confused or perplexed or puzzled.
noun
1.
An angry disturbance.  Synonyms: fuss, hassle, trouble.  "They had labor trouble" , "A spot of bother"
2.
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.  Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck.  "A bit of a bother" , "He's not a friend, he's an infliction"


Both

adjective
1.
(used with count nouns) two considered together; the two.



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"Bother" Quotes from Famous Books



... what did he know about Peaslee? If the man had merely shot at a cat, why under the sun should he not have said so at once, and saved all this bother? The more he thought, the more indignant he grew—and the more doubtful. He did not notice at all the look of timid gratitude which Mr. ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... specimen sent him was certainly a sequoia, as named by a German professor some six years before this time. So the tree was called sequoia gigantea and quietly went on growing, unmindful of the four nations who had quarrelled over its christening. Why, indeed, should it bother its lofty head with the chatter of people whose countries were unknown when this mighty tree was full grown? For these sequoias are the oldest of living objects and have probably been growing for four thousand years. ...
— Stories of California • Ella M. Sexton
... happened so far is through our not having the sense to keep quiet—worrying them with guns and such foolery. And losing our heads, and rushing off in crowds to where there wasn't any more safety than where we were. They don't want to bother us yet. They're making their things—making all the things they couldn't bring with them, getting things ready for the rest of their people. Very likely that's why the cylinders have stopped for a bit, for fear of hitting those who are here. And instead of our rushing about blind, on the howl, ...
— The War of the Worlds • H. G. Wells
... every man needing a wife, and I'm afraid I had already decided to take him if he offered, and to put the school-teacher out and have a real parlor again, but to keep Mr. Reynolds, he being tidy and no bother. ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... so numerous that the performers were obliged to withdraw him in self-defence. He was a great deal of trouble to build, but the success he met with and the pleasure he gave more than repaid me for the bother; and I am sure that any one else who tries it will ...
— The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll • Stuart Dodgson Collingwood


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