bebother

Verb

bebother (third-person singular simple present bebothers, present participle bebothering, simple past and past participle bebothered)

1. (transitive) To bring trouble upon.
   • “There is brass for all. Just home, paid off—and find my wife dead—and me saddled with the yowling kid. I’m off to sea again. Don’t see no sport widering here all bebothered with a baby.”1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Broom-Squire, published 1905, page 6
   • At present I am all upside down—nohow—bebothered—& can only write this much.1908, Edward Lear, Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave, page 114
2. (euphemistic, imperative) Damn; curse.
   • ‘Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!’ he said aloud.1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 1, in The Hobbit