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What (who) is Bother - definition
bother
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Bother (disambiguation)
¦ verb
1. [with negative] take the trouble to do something: he didn't bother to ask why.
2. worry, disturb, or upset (someone).
[usu. with negative] feel concern about or interest in.
¦ noun trouble; fuss.
?a cause of trouble or fuss.
¦ exclamation chiefly Brit. used to express mild irritation.
Origin
C17 (as a noun in the dialect sense 'noise, chatter'): of Anglo-Ir. origin; prob. related to Ir. bodhaire 'noise', bodhraim 'deafen, annoy'.
bother
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Bother (disambiguation)
I. v. a.
Perplex, worry, harass, trouble, annoy, tease, vex, plague, molest, incommode, disturb, pester, pother.
II. n.
(Colloq.) Perplexity, vexation, annoyance, plague, trouble, pother.
bother
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Bother (disambiguation)
I
n.
1) a bother to (he was a bother to everyone)
2) a bother to + inf. (it was no bother to take care of them)
3) (BE) a spot of bother
4) (esp. BE) he had a lot of bother finding our house
II
v.
1) (D; intr., tr.) to bother about, with (she didn't bother me about/with the details)
2) (E; usu. in neg. sentences) he didn't bother to shave; don't bother to get up
3) (G; usu. in neg. sentences) he didn't bother getting up
4) (R) it bothered me (to learn) that she had not been promoted
Examples of use of Bother
1. That won‘t bother some candidates, but it will bother moderates.
2. That‘s why Simon and Tom didn‘t bother with her much and why she didn‘t bother too much with them.
3. Spot of bother The world number one, however, ran into a spot of bother in the second.
4. Their message to Washington: "We‘re good guys. ... We don‘t bother you, you don‘t bother us," Petty said.
5. Mehlman didn‘t bother to defend the indefensible.