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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



... way," I remarked, "one is going to be saved all that bother in the future. They have nearly completed the new railway line. One will be able to go from Domo d'Orsola to Brieg in a little over the two hours. They tell ...
— Tea-table Talk • Jerome K. Jerome
... upward on the elevator dial. The hand stopped at 21. This was noted and recorded, after which the tenth android called a finish to the night's activities and retired to the small room he'd rented on a quiet street on the Lower East Side where, if you bothered no one, no one would bother you. ...
— Ten From Infinity • Paul W. Fairman
... gentleman,—anybody ought to have known that; and anybody that knew about his nice ways of living and behaving, and knew the kind of wear he had for his underclothing, might have known it. I could have told those officers that they had better not bother him. I know the ways of real gentlemen and real ladies, and I know those fellows in store clothes that look a little too fine,—outside. ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... "it's gettin' pretty near dark, what with all this bother and mess we been havin' around here, and I expeck as soon as I get this good ole broom-handle fixed out of the rake for you, Verman, it'll be about time to begin what we had to go and take all ...
— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington
... General, a bewildered look coming over his face. "Haven't they called yet? You see, I don't bother much about ...
— Revenge! • by Robert Barr


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