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Botheration

noun
1.
The psychological state of being irritated or annoyed.  Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation.
2.
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.  Synonyms: annoyance, bother, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck.  "A bit of a bother" , "He's not a friend, he's an infliction"






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"Botheration" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Race? Botheration! You mustn't trouble yourself about race questions out here, Antoine. Zimmerman is a good old chap, who's probably forgotten the very name of the German town he ...
— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson

... what, Thornhill, old boy, I'll give you a wrinkle; it doesn't always answer to let out all you know at an examination. That sly old varmint, West of Magdalen, asked me who Hannibal was. 'Aha!'—said I to myself—'that's your line of country, is it? You want to walk me straight into those botheration Punic Wars, it's no go, though; I sha'n't break cover in that direction.' So I was mute. 'Can't you tell me something about Hannibal?' says old West again. 'I can,' thinks I, 'but I won't.' He was regularly ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 • Various

... violence at Fairly which had sickened him, and irritated him against Dahlia, and instigated him, as he remembered well, more than Mrs. Lovell's witcheries, to the abhorrent scheme to be quit of her, and rid of all botheration, at ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... you'll find me, Still detained against my will; And I wish, distinctly, mind me, To accentuate the "still;" It's a sort of consolation, As I sit, and fume, and frown, That the greatest botheration Of my life ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, September 3, 1892 • Various

... be some mistake," said Grace. "I'll show you the books. Mr. Mauleverer keeps one himself, and leaves one with me. Oh, botheration, there's the Grey carriage! Well, you go and receive them, and I'll try to pacify Mrs. Rossitur, and then ...
— The Clever Woman of the Family • Charlotte M. Yonge



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