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annoyance
English
Alternative forms
- annoyaunce (obsolete)
- annoying (obsolete)
- annoyment (nonstandard)
Etymology
From Middle English anoiaunce, from Old French anuiance, anoiance, from the verb anuier (“to cause problems”). Compare French ennui.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n???ns/
Noun
annoyance (countable and uncountable, plural annoyances)
- (countable) That which annoys.
- (countable) An act or instance of annoying.
- (uncountable) The psychological state of being annoyed or irritated.
Synonyms
- nark
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botheration
English
Etymology
From bother +? -ation (suffix indicating an action or process, or its result).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?ð???e??n?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?b?ð???e??(?)n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
- Hyphenation: bo?ther?a?tion
Interjection
botheration (originally Ireland, dated, often humorous)
- A mild expression of annoyance or exasperation: bother!
- 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
Translations
Noun
botheration (countable and uncountable, plural botherations) (originally Ireland, dated, often humorous)
- (uncountable) The state of being bothered; annoyance, vexation.
- Synonyms: irritation; see also Thesaurus:annoyance
- 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 [...]
- 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.
- (countable) An act of bothering or annoying.
- (countable) A person or thing that causes bother, inconvenience, trouble, etc.
- Synonym: nuisance
- 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.
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