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Etymology

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Borrowed fromScotsbauther,bather(“to bother”). Origin unknown. Perhaps related toScotspother(“to make a stir or commotion, bustle”), also of unknown origin. CompareEnglishpother(“to poke, prod”), variant ofpotter(“to poke”). More atpotter. Perhaps related toIrishbodhaire(“noise”),Irishbodhraim(“to deafen, annoy”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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bother (third-person singular simple presentbothers,present participlebothering,simple past and past participlebothered)

  1. (transitive) Toannoy, todisturb, toirritate; to betroublesome to, to maketrouble for.
    Synonyms:annoy,disturb,inconvenience,irritate,put out,vex;see alsoThesaurus:annoy,Thesaurus:upset
    Would itbother you if I smoked?
    1. (imperative, euphemistic)Damn;curse.
  2. (intransitive or reflexive) To feelcare orconcern; toburden orinconvenience oneself out of concern.
    Synonyms:care,mind;see alsoThesaurus:care
    I neverbother about such trivialities.
    I wouldn'tbother with an umbrella if I were you.
    • 1876 July,Henry James, Jr., chapter V, inThe American, Boston, Mass.:James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, […], published5 May 1877,→OCLC,page87:
      To expand, withoutbothering about it—without shiftless timidity on one side, or loquacious eagerness on the other—to the full compass of what he would have called a "pleasant" experience, was Newman's most definite programme of life.
  3. (intransitive, catenative) Totake the trouble, totrouble oneself (to do something).
    Synonyms:go to the trouble,take the trouble
    Why do I evenbother to try?
    1. To do something which is ofnegligibleinconvenience.
      You didn’t evenbother to close the door.

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Translations

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to annoy, to disturb, to be troublesome to
to feel care or concern
to take the trouble, to trouble oneself to do something
to do something which is of negligible inconvenience

Noun

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bother (countable anduncountable,pluralbothers)

  1. Fuss,ado.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:commotion
    There was a bit ofbother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.
    • 2015 January 18, Monty Munford, “What’s the point of carrying a mobile phone nowadays?”, inThe Daily Telegraph‎[1]:
      It was a 15-minute return trip to walk back home to pick up my device, but I weighed it up and decided that it wasn’t worth thebother.
  2. Trouble,inconvenience.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:nuisance
    Yes, I can do that for you—it’s nobother.

Translations

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fuss, ado
trouble, inconvenience

Interjection

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bother!

  1. (dated, euphemistic)A mild expression of annoyance.
    • 1908,Kenneth Grahame,The Wind in the Willows, London: Wordsworth Classics, published1993, page11:
      [H]e suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said "Bother!" and "Oh blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.
    • 1926, A A Milne,Winnie the Pooh, Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place:
      "Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
      "Oh,bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
      "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help andbother!"

Synonyms

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Translations

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mild expression of annoyance/irritation

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^Concise Oxford English Dictionary 2011

Anagrams

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