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Definition of Bother

1. Verb. Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself. "Don't bother, please"

2. Noun. An angry disturbance. "A spot of bother"

3. Verb. Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations. "The performance is likely to bother Sue"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"

4. Noun. Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness. "He's not a friend, he's an infliction"

5. Verb. To cause inconvenience or discomfort to. "Sorry to trouble you, but..."

6. Verb. Intrude or enter uninvited. "Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers"

7. Verb. Make nervous or agitated. "The performance is likely to bother Sue"; "The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster"

8. Verb. Make confused or perplexed or puzzled. "The bad news will bother him"

Definition of Bother

1. v. t. To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

2. v. i. To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.

3. n. One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

Definition of Bother

1. Verb. (transitive) To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To do something at one's own inconvenience. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. ¹

4. Noun. Fuss, ado. ¹

5. Noun. Trouble, inconvenience. ¹

6. Interjection. A mild expression of annoyance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bother

1. to annoy [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: annoy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bother

bote botel boteless botels boten botete botetes botflies botfly both

both(a) both-hands bothan bothans bothe bother (current term) botheration botherations botherder botherders

bothered botherer botherers bothering bothers bothersome bothersomely bothersomeness bothie bothies

Literary usage of Bother

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1890)
"A row, fuss, bother, a muddle. [Tortworth.] [S.] [SW] " What's the use of making such a ... To make a bustle, fuss or bother. Also to tell tales or gossip. ..."

2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"spec, sorrow, misfortune, anxiety, fear. 2. In a loose sense referring to any degree, however slight, of discomfort or inconvenience: bother, ..."

3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1803)
"bother. You took some blood, Sir, irom him ?— Which caused a tuber, ... My lord I wishes to be going, • bother. Stay, Mr. Chubb, speak out, sir, do, ..."

4. Alice-for-short: A Dichronism by William Frend De Morgan (1907)
"bother Lavinia Straker!" said he. "I know no Lavinia Straker," that being the signature of the applicant. Next morning he felt chilly and grown old. ..."

5. The Treasury of Knowledge and Library Reference by Samuel Maunder (1853)
"Don't bother me," or, do not annoy me at both ears; hence the corrupted word, bother. BUMPER. Bumper is a corruption of ban pere, good father, ie, the Pope, ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Oh, Mathematics, they bother me to. " To lectura they sometimes compel me to ... Mathematics would ne'er again bother me so, Mathematics would ne'er again ..."

7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1858)
"Why bother the head with unravelling the title of Owen Glendower to a yard and a-half of his neighbor's ground ? Fi- PARIS, December 24. ..."

8. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"worry, flurry, hurry, row, fuss, bustle, bother, dissipation, and distraction, that it is vain hoping to add anything intelligible to it. Good-bye, dearest. ..."

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