botherations

Noun

botheration (countable and uncountable, plural botherations)

1. (dated, humorous, often, uncountable) The state of being bothered; annoyance, vexation.
   • I write in great haste & with a head full of botheration about various projected works …1803, William Blake, Letter to his brother James Blake dated 30 January, 1803, in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1970, p. 696

   Synonyms:

   irritation, annoyance, bother, exasperation, frustration, vexation

2. (countable, dated, humorous, often) An act of bothering or annoying.
3. (countable, dated, humorous, often) A person or thing that causes bother, inconvenience, trouble, etc.
   • [...] the by-products and botherations that go with pleasures make it hardly worth it. Sex is supposedly life's greatest pleasure and look what it gives you.1954, Peter De Vries, chapter 6, in The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, page 63

   Synonyms:

   nuisance

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