Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of bothering or the state of being bothered.
- interj. Used to express annoyance or irritation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of bothering, or the state of being bothered; annoyance; trouble; vexation; perplexity.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. colloq. The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
- n. the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed
Examples
“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The usual botheration en route; love those people who make a point of getting in front of you, then drive below the posted limit.”
“Savoir-y-faire intends something like addressing with it, 'with intensions of getting obviate it, 'unlacing oneself from it'; it makes not regard acquiring a acquirement, but sieving something out, getting eliminate a onus or botheration.”
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one word exclamations
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( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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glover, breakfront, submaximal, criticality, lanoline, mouthy, botheration, metaphorically, metaphase, disavowal, arum, ostentatiously and 162 more...
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