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Botheration   Listen
noun
Botheration  n.  The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. (Colloq.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Botheration" Quotes from Famous Books



... cannot tell the reason, except it be, they are more difficult to reduce to a regimen, or system of travelling, and are always fond of playing some innocent pranks. The lively things certainly make more noise and botheration than the males. We are to purchase dates here, they being cheap and of good quality. The townspeople come to see me write, but I lose patience with them, knowing them to be such a nasty set. Bad rulers make bad ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson

... matter? She'd come back to them again as soon as we were gone, and think what a botheration spared her! All the row of receiving people, turning the house upside down. And here I am on the spot. And what do you want with bridesmaids and so forth? You've got all your things. Suppose we walk out to church to-morrow before ...
— The Marriage of Elinor • Margaret Oliphant



Words linked to "Botheration" :   irritant, psychological state, nuisance, negative stimulus, mental condition, huff, mental state, pain, plague, thorn, bummer, miff, pain in the neck, pain in the ass, irritation, bother, snit, infliction



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