Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of bothering or the state of being bothered.
- interjection Used to express annoyance or irritation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of bothering, or the state of being bothered; annoyance; trouble; vexation; perplexity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
- noun the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
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Examples
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The assurance of the sites you are ambidextrous with isto ensure you get the appropriate thing, as well be accustomed with the botheration is apparently the fitting.
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’ 2010
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In fact, perhaps what is lurking underneath all your botheration is the idea that a Muslim has shot his fellow soldiers, this has terrible ramifications that you want to leave to others to “parse,” and none of these conclusions are politically correct.
NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth Paul Carr 2005
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The others, having reached the door, turned round, and, finding that the youth did not follow them, one of them called to him with a tone of some authority; whereupon the young man rose, and, pronouncing half audibly the word "botheration," rose and followed them.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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The others, having reached the door, turned round, and, finding that the youth did not follow them, one of them called to him with a tone of some authority; whereupon the young man rose, and, pronouncing half audibly the word "botheration," rose and followed them.
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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The others, having reached the door, turned round, and finding that the youth did not follow them, one of them called to him with a tone of some authority; whereupon the young man rose, and, pronouncing half audibly the word "botheration," rose and followed them.
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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"botheration," and that Pallas folk are going to "have their own" again, as was once said of a Stuart king, who did not get it nevertheless.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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At the same time, the ones with defective hearts are the personnel who blindly and stupidly treat the passengers as an inconvenience and botheration.
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The complete failure to adhere to any semblance of plausible physical law — I am sure neither momentum nor energy are conserved for more than 30 seconds after the titles conclude — far trumps for me any notional botheration about which came first, civilized Mayans or civilized Babylonians.
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As far as botheration currently goes, Mr Banker rates about a 2 and the latest reactionary strike against equality, and actual lives being hurt, a 95.
Another quick update shweta_narayan 2009
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The usual botheration en route; love those people who make a point of getting in front of you, then drive below the posted limit.
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