Reverse Dictionary: BOTHER

ADJECTIVES
1843 ► PESTERSOME bothersome; troublesome, annoying → Amer. dial.
1892 ► TEWED bothered, harassed → Amer. dial.
1900 ► FAFFLED bothered; entangled → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1903 ► NAGGLED bothered, annoyed → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 ► SCORNSUM bothering, troublesome → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 ► MESSING bothering, troublesome → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1971 ► UP ONE’S ASS bothering, hounding, or annoying someone → Amer. sl.
1971 ► UP ONE’S BUTT bothering, hounding, or annoying someone → Amer. sl.
1971 ► UP ONE’S HOLE bothering, hounding, or annoying someone → Amer. sl.
1990 ► FRIAR TUCKED bothered, concerned → euphemism for ‘fucked’
1999 ► ARSED bothered; worried → Brit. sl.


NOUNS
1650 ► SPUDDER fuss, disturbance, bother
1714 ► FASH bother, annoyance, disturbance; inconvenience; fuss, pother → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1748 ► NEEF → KNEEF bother, difficulty → Sc. obs.
..19C ► CRUM-A-GRACKLE a bother, a mess, a difficulty, a perplexity ֽ→ Eng. dial.
1801 ► BOTHERATION a bothering; petty vexation or annoyance → colloq.
1810 ► ADOW bother, fuss → Sc.
1856 ► CADDLE bother, worry, trouble, dispute, fuss → Eng. dial.
1874 ► MAKE-ADO a bother, a fuss; an uproar, disturbance → Eng. dial.
1875 ► FISH-FASH bother, fuss, troublesome business → Eng. dial.
1897 ► MANCH bother, trouble, pains; a fuss ֽ→ Eng. dial.
1898 ► BAL a bother, a nuisance → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BOFFLEMENT a bother; a state of perplexity → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► FASHMENT bother, trouble → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 ► FASKING ABOUT a bothering, a bustling → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MOIDER a fuss, a bother → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 ► PAIN a bother  US colloq.
1940 ► PARANGLES a bothersome, complicated situation → W. Indies sl.
1945 ► HASSLE a bother, a fuss; trouble or annoyance caused by having to do something difficult; a problem, a difficulty 
1950 ► HACKLING a bothering, a worrying, a troubling → W. Indies Rasta usage
1960 ► BOVVER trouble, bother, aggro; fighting, disturbance → Brit. sl.
1967 ► PAIN IN THE NECK a bothersome thing → US colloq.
1971 ► HASS a bother, a nuisance → US students’ sl. (Bk.)


NOUNS, PERSON
1773 ► VARMINT a bothersome person; a scoundrel; an annoying person 
1893 ► HADFASH a bothersome, troublesome person → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 ► PAIN a bothersome person ֽ→ US colloq.
1967 ► PAIN IN THE NECK a bothersome person → US colloq.


PHRASES
1990 ► WHAT CRAWLED UP YOUR ASS AND DIED? what is troubling you? → students’ sl.


VERBS
1400 ► HARRY to bother; to worry, to goad, to torment, to harass; to worry mentally 
1533 ► FASH to bother; to give trouble, to weary → chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1794 ► DEAVE to bother; to worry, to embarrass, to confuse → Sc. & Eng. dial.
..19C ► DADDLE to bother; to trouble, to annoy, to worry ֽ→ Eng. dial.
..19C ► MITHER to bother; to complain, to nag, to prevaricate ֽ→ Eng. dial.
1800 ► HATCHEL to bother, to annoy; to call to account → Amer. dial.
1806 ► HAG to bother; to annoy; to provoke, to irritate → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1819 ► DEVIL to bother; to tease, to annoy, to harass → Amer. dial.
1824 ► TEW to bother; to trouble, to harass; to exhaust; to fatigue; to tire → Sc. & Eng. dial.
.M19 ► EAT OFF to bother; to annoy → sl.
1860 ► HERRY to bother; to harass, to tease, to worry; to overdo, to urge, to impel → Eng. dial.
1861 ► MOIDLE to worry, to bother, to confuse; to muddle, to mess about → Eng. dial.
1865 ► CADDLE to bother; to trouble → Eng. dial.
1881 ► AL → HAL to bother; to banter; to worry → Eng. dial.
1892 ► EAT to bother; to annoy, to vex → US sl.
1894 ► ODDLE to bother, to put one about → Sc. obs.
1897 ► MANCH to bother; to trouble, to take pains ֽ→ Eng. dial.
..20C ► DOG to bother; to criticize → teen & high school sl.
1904 ► HUMBUG to bother; to interfere with → Trinidad and Tobago 
1905 ► BOTHERATE to bother, to trouble → Amer. dial.
1905 ► PESTICATE to bother; to annoy, to pester; to nose around → Amer. dial.
1913 ► DISCOMFIT to bother; to inconvenience → Amer. dial.
1913 ► FUB AROUND to bother; to fuss → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1916 ► MUCKLE to bother, to disturb, to upset → Amer. dial.
1918 ► EAT ON to bother; to annoy, to vex → US sl.
1928 ► GRAMY to bother; to vex, to anger → Amer. dial.
1947 ► BUG to bother someone, to annoy someone → US sl.
1950 ► HACKLE to bother, to worry, to trouble → W. Indies Rasta usage
1959 ► HASSLE to bother; to pester; to cause trouble or harm to; to harass a person 
1959 ► HETCHEL to bother; to annoy; to nag; to tease, to call to account → Amer. dial.
1967 ► BEHOODLE to bother; to annoy, to harass → Amer. dial.
1967 ► DIG to bother, to irritate one → Amer. dial.
1967 ► URP to bother; to annoy, to irritate → Amer. dial.
1970 ► JIG to bother, to annoy → Amer. dial.
1980 ► AG to bother; to annoy, to upset → sl.