inconvenience
gall
importune
spoffle
plague
gripe
irk
devil
hassle
bovvered
fash
pester
botherment
feddle
pinprick
get under one's goat
tarnation
rub someone the wrong way
grievance
moither
hack off
piss off
smoke
beef
crab
grump
bitch out
beak off
nark
discomfort
annoyedly
fossick
wrinch
drive someone crazy
spleen
get on someone's tits
fashery
face up
holler
send
give a rip
give a toss
give a light
pudder
bot
get on someone's nerves
bibble
cop the needle
lose sleep
chut pattern
peeve
sweat
stand
bear
stomach
take the trouble
suffer
support
digest
burble
tolerate
brook
fussbudgety
put up
abide
miff
endure
stick out
grig
fret
creepy
thorn
-able
give a monkey's
fusspottery
ruffled
arseness
annoyable
pain in the butt
dither
irritable
niggling
plaguy
flap
pother
unsettle
annoying
ride
complainy
blister
forset
mither
at
molest
bothersomely
bovvered
tarnation
fussbudgety
creepy
ruffled
annoyable
irritable
niggling
plaguy
complainy
annoyedly
bothersomely
plague
pester
botherment
pinprick
grievance
smoke
hassle
fashery
peeve
thorn
fusspottery
arseness
pain in the butt
annoying
blister
fash
inconvenience
gall
importune
spoffle
gripe
irk
devil
hassle
fash
feddle
get under one's goat
rub someone the wrong way
moither
hack off
piss off
beef
crab
grump
bitch out
beak off
nark
discomfort
fossick
wrinch
drive someone crazy
spleen
get on someone's tits
face up
holler
send
give a rip
give a toss
give a light
pudder
bot
get on someone's nerves
bibble
cop the needle
lose sleep
chut pattern
sweat
stand
bear
stomach
take the trouble
suffer
support
digest
burble
tolerate
brook
put up
abide
miff
endure
stick out
grig
fret
give a monkey's
dither
flap
pother
unsettle
ride
forset
mither
molest
verb
- To bother or trouble.
- To scoff; to jeer.
- To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
- To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
- To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- To exasperate.
- To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
noun
- Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
- A feeling of exasperation.
- The gall bladder.
- A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
- A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
- A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
verb
noun
- an annoyance
- a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- a swarm of insects that attack plants
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
verb
verb
- To annoy or bother.
- To suffer griping pains.
- To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
- To complain; to whine.
noun
- A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
- A complaint, often a petty or trivial one.
- The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
- The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
- Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
- An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
verb
- To annoy or bother.
- To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
noun
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
- A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A printer's assistant. Also (India) "a poltergeist that haunts printing works".
- A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A dust devil.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
- An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- Hell.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
name
adj
noun
noun
- Bother; problems; hassle.
- A light grey colour/color tinted with blue.
- A fastball.
- A cigarette.
- Anything to smoke (e.g. cigarettes, marijuana, etc.)
- A distinct column of smoke, such as indicating a burning area or fire.
- A fleeting illusion; something insubstantial, evanescent, unreal, transitory, or without result.
- The visible vapor/vapour, gases, and fine particles given off by burning or smoldering material.
- An instance of smoking a cigarette, cigar, etc.; the duration of this act.
- A particulate of solid or liquid particles dispersed into the air on the battlefield to degrade enemy ground or for aerial observation. Smoke has many uses--screening smoke, signaling smoke, smoke curtain, smoke haze, and smoke deception. Thus it is an artificial aerosol.
- Something used to obscure or conceal; an obscuring condition; see also smoke and mirrors.
verb
- To dry or medicate by smoke.
- To give off smoke.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage.
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- To cover (a key blank) with soot or carbon to aid in seeing the marks made by impressioning.
- To suffer severely; to be punished.
- To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke.
- To preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke.
- To beat someone at something.
- To punish (a person) for a minor offense by excessive physical exercise.
- To kill, especially with a gun.
- Of a fire in a fireplace: to emit smoke outward instead of up the chimney, owing to imperfect draught.
- To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.
- To perform (e.g. music) energetically or skillfully.
verb
- To complain.
- To feud or hold a grudge against.
- To cry.
- To fail or mess up.
- To add weight or strength to.
- To fart; break wind.
noun
- A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of faith or trust (in something or someone); a reason for a dislike or grudge. (often + with)
- The edible portions of a cow (including those which are not meat).
- Muscle or musculature; size, strength or potency.
- Essence, content; the important part of a document or project.
- The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
- Bovine animals.
- Fibrous calcite or limestone, especially when occurring in a jagged layer between shales in Dorset.
- A bovine (cow or bull) being raised for its meat.
adj
verb
- To complain.
- To complain about.
- To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
- To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.
- To ruin.
- To fish for crabs.
- To move (a camera) sideways.
- To back out of something.
- To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
- To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
- To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
noun
- The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
- A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
- A playing card with the rank of three.
- The crab apple or wild apple.
- The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
- A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
- A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
- The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.
- A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
- A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
- An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
- A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
- A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
- A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
- The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
- The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
- A bad-tempered person.
adv
verb
- To care.
- To make a successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
- To excite, delight, or thrill (someone).
- To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message or do an errand.
- To pitch.
- To bring to a certain condition.
- To cause to be or to happen; to bring, bring about; (archaic) to visit: (Referring to blessing or reward) To bestow; to grant. (Referring to curse or punishment) To inflict. Sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
- To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another (or to someone).
noun
- An operation in which data is transmitted.
- An icon (usually on a computer screen and labeled with the word "Send") on which one clicks (with a mouse or its equivalent) or taps to transmit an email or other electronic message.
- A messenger, especially one sent to fetch the bride.
- A callout or diss usually aimed at a specific person, often in the form of a diss track.
- A successful ascent of a sport climbing route.
verb
verb
verb
verb
- To bugger.
- To ask for and be given something with the direct intention of exploiting the thing’s usefulness, almost exclusively with cigarettes.
- To use a bot, or automated program.
noun
- The larva of a botfly, which infests the skin of various mammals, producing warbles, or the nasal passage of sheep, or the stomach of horses.
- A physical robot.
- A piece of software designed to perform a minor but repetitive task automatically or on command, especially when operating with the appearance of a (human) user profile or account.
- A computer-controlled character in a video game, especially a multiplayer one.
- A supremely unskilled player.
verb
verb
verb
- To worry.
- To stress out.
- To cause to excrete moisture through skin.
- To emit sweat.
- To worry about (something).
- To cause to perspire.
- To have drops of water form on (something's surface) due to moisture condensation.
- To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.
- To extract money, labour, etc. from, by exaction or oppression.
- To emit moisture.
- To solder (a pipe joint) together.
- To take a racehorse for a short exercise run.
- To cook slowly at low heat, in shallow oil and without browning, to reduce moisture content.
- To work hard.
- To emit, in the manner of sweat.
- To suffer a penalty; to smart for one's misdeeds.
noun
- The state of one who sweats; diaphoresis.
- Hard work; toil.
- A short run by a racehorse as a form of exercise.
- An extremely competitive player.
- The sweating sickness.
- Fluid that exits the body through pores in the skin usually due to physical stress and/or high temperature for the purpose of regulating body temperature and removing certain compounds from the circulation.
- A soldier (especially one who is old or experienced).
- Moisture issuing from any substance.
verb
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- be standing; be upright
- be in some specified state or condition
- occupy a place or location, also metaphorically
- hold one's ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright
- have or maintain a position or stand on an issue
- remain inactive or immobile
- be in effect; be or remain in force
- be tall; have a height of; copula
- put into an upright position
- withstand the force of something
- be available for stud services
noun
- a support or foundation
- the position where a thing or person stands
- a growth of similar plants (usually trees) in a particular area
- a small table for holding articles of various kinds
- a support for displaying ot holding various articles
- an interruption of normal activity
- a mental position from which things are viewed
- a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance
- tiered seats consisting of a structure (often made of wood) where people can sit to watch an event (game or parade)
- a platform where a (brass) band can play in the open air
- a defensive effort
verb
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- have
- maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
- cause to be born
- move while holding up or supporting
- bring forth
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- contain or hold; have within
- bring in
- have on one's person
- behave in a certain manner
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- support or hold in a certain manner
- be pregnant with
noun
verb
noun
verb
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to
- support materially or financially
- be behind; approve of
- be the physical support of; carry the weight of
- establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- adopt as a belief
- support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm
- argue or speak in defense of
- play a subordinate role to (another performer)
- be a regular customer or client of
noun
- the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
- aiding the cause or policy or interests of
- something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest
- a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission
- documentary validation
- the financial means whereby one lives
- supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation
- the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
- a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts
- any device that bears the weight of another thing
- financial resources provided to make some project possible
verb
- put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- convert food into absorbable substances
- arrange and integrate in the mind
- become assimilated into the body
- systematize, as by classifying and summarizing
- soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture
- make more concise
- soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture
noun
verb
- cause annoyance in
- worry unnecessarily or excessively
- be agitated or irritated
- provide (a musical instrument) with frets
- become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
- gnaw into; make resentful or angry
- carve a pattern into
- decorate with an interlaced design
- be too tight; rub or press
- cause friction
- remove soil or rock
- wear away or erode
noun
- agitation resulting from active worry
- a spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- an ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
- a small bar of metal across the fingerboard of a musical instrument; when the string is stopped by a finger at the metal bar it will produce a note of the desired pitch
noun
- That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
- A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
- A sharp protective spine of a plant.
- Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
verb
verb
- To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone).
- To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments.
- To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger.
- To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman.
- To rely, depend (on).
- Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water.
- In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style.
- To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
- To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
- To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds.
- To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
- To transport (someone) in a vehicle.
- To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle.
- Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle.
- To traverse by riding.
- To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback.
- To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with.
- Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body).
noun
- A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle.
- A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive.
- An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park.
- An instance of riding.
- A vehicle.
- An act of sexual intercourse
- In jazz, a steady rhythmical style.
- A wild, bewildering experience of some duration.
- A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path.
noun
- A cause of annoyance.
- A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
- A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
- An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
- A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula.
- A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
- A swelling on a plant.
- Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
verb
prep
- Bothering, irritating, causing discomfort to
- (also as at; before dates) On a particular date.
- Occupied in (activity).
- In a state of.
- On the subject of; regarding.
- In, near, or in the general vicinity of a particular place.
- Denotes a price.
- Because of.
- Indicates a position on a scale or in a series.
- Indicates a means, method, or manner.
- Holding a given speed or rate.
- Indicating occurrence in an instant of time or a period of time relatively short in context or from the speaker's perspective.
- In the direction of (often in an unfocused or uncaring manner).
noun
English words for 'to bother'
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to be closed
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same opinion
drooping moustache
common sense.
one advantage
stingy person
a valance.
to go to seed.
muscle fiber
pica
an offer of marriage
one's own house
economic conditions
movement (of the body)
coming to fruition
butcher's knife
basso continuo
at a disadvantage.
criteria
ITS
Continuing
to ambush
to pickle.
mischance.
to resuscitate
a girl.
one's path
upper air
In the way
thanklessness
gigantic.
a trap.
mental derangement
contortion
to annoy.
portfolio
acceptor
cutout
sore
to call in
conciliation
racketeer
misty
Miss
attorney
to loosen
to flee