botheration
noun
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L317263 on Wikidata ↗interjection
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L334139 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˌbɒðəˈɹeɪʃn̩/ / /ˌbɑðəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
intj
Etymology: From bother + -ation (suffix indicating an action or process, or its result).
- A mild expression of annoyance or exasperation: bother!
“"Botheration ! Who cares ? Why don't you ask if [our ancestors] carried pocket-books ?"”
“Botheration! How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way.”
noun
Etymology: From bother + -ation (suffix indicating an action or process, or its result).
- The state of being bothered; 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 …”
“[...] I am determined to be peevish after my long day's botheration.”
- An act of bothering or annoying.
- 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.”