A Topical Dictionary: Search for botheration

Dictionary Results For "botheration" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪʃǝn|-eɪʃǝn

Noun

The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

Quotations

1918 : Botheration! How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way. - w:Katherine Mansfield|Katherine Mansfield, Prelude (Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, 120)

hu:botheration ta:botheration vi:botheration zh:botheration

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Botheration \Both`er*a"tion\, n.
The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of
trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]

WordNet botheration
n 1: the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed [syn:
irritation, annoyance, vexation]
2: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of
unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got
a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend,
he's an infliction" [syn: annoyance, bother, pain, infliction,
pain in the neck, pain in the ass]