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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



... pop! The Moros were watching, and fired from time to time, irregularly. A prostrate man is hard to hit at a few hundred yards. These pot-shots serve to bother and ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Philippines - or, Following the Flag against the Moros • H. Irving Hancock
... fishing. Not really. Mostly the darkies fish. We don't bother to. They bring us plenty to eat when we want them at ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's • Laura Lee Hope
... know. You see, if you tell a man what you want, he sometimes imagines that what he did on another day is what really happened on the actual occasion, and that, as you can imagine, makes our job very difficult. I don't want to bother you, but as your name was mentioned to me in connection with a certain investigation, I wished to test the truth ...
— The Pointing Man - A Burmese Mystery • Marjorie Douie
... foreordained that all unmarried women who held conversation with men would go to hell. Scraps of her catechism recurred to her remembrance. Ah, if one only knew for certain, but, alas, one was sure of nothing; nobody ever brought back any information, and then, truly, it would be stupid to bother oneself about things if the priests were talking foolishness all the time. Nevertheless, she religiously kissed her medal, which was still warm from contact with her skin, as though by way of charm against death, the idea of which filled her with ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola
... ERMYNTRUDE. Oh bother! If you had lost ten thousand a year what expressions would you use, do you think? The long and the short of it is that I can't live in the squalid way ...
— The Inca of Perusalem • George Bernard Shaw


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