botheration
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌbɒðəˈreɪʃən/
botheration
- The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble
- Synonyms: perplexity, annoyance, vexation
- 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,
- I write in great haste & with a head full of botheration about various projected works […]
- 1954, Peter De Vries, The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, Chapter Six, p. 63,
- […] 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.
- 1982, Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, New York: Pocket Books, 1983, Chapter 4, p. 59,
- At home he read too many papers. He was better off without his daily dose of world botheration, sham happenings, without newspaper phrases.
- An expression of annoyance.
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, "Prelude" in Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2002, p. 120
- Botheration! How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way.
- 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 3,
- "Blast and botheration!" exclaimed Digory. "What's gone wrong now? […] "
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, "Prelude" in Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2002, p. 120
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