Reverse Dictionary: EXASPERATE

ADJECTIVES
► ACERBATE embittered; exasperated; severe → 1869
► EXULCERATED irritated, embittered, exasperated → 1640
► NARGIT vexed, chagrined, exasperated → 1923 Sc.
► NETTLESOME ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating → 1895 Eng. dial.
► NETTLIE ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► OUTDONE put out, perplexed, exasperated, displeased; disappointed, overcome, beaten, humiliated, embarrassed → 1816 Amer. dial.
► RASPARATED exasperated → 1895 Eng. dial.
► RASPY easily exasperated, irritable, short-tempered → 1877
► RAW annoyed, angry, exasperated → 1811 Eng. dial.
► TANTERSOME exasperating, annoying, vexatious → 1921 Sc.

ADVERBS
► NETTLESOME ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating → 1895 Eng. dial.
► NETTLIE ill-humoured, peevish, quarrelsome, exasperating → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TANTERSOME exasperating, annoying, vexatious → 1921 Sc.

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► AG! an exclamation of pleasure, irritation, or exasperation → 1930s S. Afr. sl.
► ARE YOU THERE WITH YOUR BEARS? an expression of exasperation or surprise, esp. at a person’s persistence with a topic or notion; ‘are you at it again?’ → 1594 obs.
► AW SHUCKS! expressing surprise, exasperation, genial self-deprecation, or gratified embarrassment → 1888 colloq.
► BAGODBAGEE! ► BAGODBAJEES! an exclamation of impatience and exasperation → 1970 Amer. dial.
► BAGODBEJINGOES! an exclamation of impatience and exasperation → 1970 Amer. dial.
► BLOW MY BUTTONS! expresses surprise, astonishment, exasperation, dismay, etc. → 1907 colloq.
► BUGGER ME! expresses astonishment or exasperation → 1936
► BUGSARN IT! expresses annoyance or exasperation → 1911 Amer. dial.
► CHRIST JESUS! used to express strong feeling, esp. surprise, dismay, disgust, or exasperation → 1787
► DASH MY BUTTONS! expresses surprise, astonishment, exasperation, dismay, etc. → 1756 colloq.
► DEAR GUSSIE! an exclamation of exasperation → 1984 Amer. dial.
► DINGBLASTIT! an expression of annoyance or exasperation → 1911 Amer. dial.
► DUW DUW! used to register frustration, exasperation or sympathy → 2002 UK sl.
► GREAT SCOTT! expressing surprise, exasperation, etc.
► GUSSIE PETE! an exclamation of exasperation → 1984 Amer. dial.
► I’LL BE SWITCHED! an exclamation of exasperation, denial, or surprise → 1838 US colloq.
► LORDSAKE! an exclamation of surprise, exasperation, etc. → 1815 colloq., orig. Sc.
► MOTHER OF SHIT! an exclamation of surprise, rage or exasperation → 1940s US
► POOT! an exclamation of exasperation → 1918 Amer. dial.
► SOD THIS FOR A GAME OF SOLDIERS expresses exasperation at a situation of course of action, typically implying that one intends to leave or give up → 1975 sl.
► STICK THIS FOR A GAME OF SOLDIERS expresses exasperation at a situation of course of action, typically implying that one intends to leave or give up → 1959 sl.
► TA! an exclamation of impatience or exasperation → 1837 Sc.
► WOULDN’T IT GIVE YOU THE PIP expression of disgust or exasperation → 20C
► WOULDN’T IT GIVE YOU THE SHITS expression of disgust or exasperation → 20C
► WOULDN’T IT GIVE YOU THE TOM-TITS expression of disgust or exasperation → 20C
► WOULDN’T IT RIP THE HARNESS OFF A NIGHTMARE expression of disgust or exasperation → 20C
► WOULDN’T IT RIP YOU? ► WOULDN’T IT RIP YER? used to express disgust or exasperation → 1941 Aust. sl.
► WOULDN’T IT ROCK YER? an exclamation of dismay, exasperation, or disgust → 1940 Aust. sl.
► WOULDN’T IT ROOT YOU! ► WOULDN’T IT ROOT YER! an exclamation of disgust, exasperation, or annoyance → 1940 Aust. & NZ
► WOULDN’T IT ROTATE YOU? an exclamation of dismay, exasperation, or disgust → 1940 Aust. sl.
► WOULDN’T IT ROT YOUR SOCKS? an exclamation of dismay, exasperation, or disgust → 1940 Aust. sl.
► YE GODS! a mild oath, esp. used to express exasperation or indignation → 1807

NOUNS
► BALL-BREAKER a difficult, boring or exasperating job, problem, or situation → 1950s sl., orig. US
► BALL-TEARER a major problem; an exasperation → 1980 Aust. sl.
► TOMTITS anger; exasperation → 1984 Aust. rhyming; sl. for ‘the shits’ (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► CUSS-FIRED FOOL an exasperating person → 1929 Amer. dial.
► GAWDELPUS ► GAWD-HELP-US a helpless, irritating, or exasperating person → 1912 jocular usage
► RASPER one who speaks in a harsh, grating manner; an exasperating person → 1895 Eng. dial.
► TARRAN a passionate, brawling child; a peevish, cantankerous, ill-humoured person; one who tries to get his own way by persistent nagging or fractiousness; an exasperating person → 1802 Sc.

VERBS
► ACERBATE to sour or embitter; fig. to exasperate → 1731
► BEAT A MONKEY SHOW to be remarkably amusing, exasperating or the like → 1858 Amer. sl.
► BEAT THE DUTCH to be surprising or astonishing; to be exasperating → 1775 Amer. dial.
► BEATS A HEN A-FLYING to be surprising or astonishing; to be exasperating → 1966 Amer. dial.
► BEATS A HEN A-ROUTING to be surprising or astonishing; to be exasperating → 1966 Amer. dial.
► EAGER to excite, to irritate, to provoke; to become exasperated → c1374 obs.
► EFFERATE to render fierce or harsh, to exasperate → 1658 obs.
► EXASPER to exasperate, provoke → 1545 obs.
► EXULCERATE to exasperate, to irritate; to aggravate a disease or sorrow → 1593
► GET ONE’S ANGORA to irk, to annoy, to anger or exasperate someone; to discomfit or rattle one → 1915 Amer. sl.
► GET ONE’S ANIMAL to exasperate or annoy someone → 1922 Amer. sl.
► GIVE ONE THE WORMS to exasperate, to irritate, to annoy → 20C Aust. sl.
► HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE to be exasperated; to have lost all one’s patience → 1940s sl.
► HAWK to jeer with intent to provoke; to exasperate; to discomfit, to daunt; to annoy, to tease; to embarrass → 1928 Amer. dial.
► HOLD ONE IN TAMTARY to keep one in suspense; to tease or exasperate by delay; to vex or disquiet one → 1710 Sc.
► INASPERATE to provoke to cruelty or bitterness; to exasperate, to embitter → 1599 obs.
► MAD to exasperate, to drive mad, as with jealousy, worry, etc. → L16 UK, US & W. Indies sl.
► NARK to annoy, to vex, to irritate, to exasperate; to infuriate; to become annoyed → 1860 Eng. dial. & sl.
► PLAY THE MOATS to be much exasperated → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► RAZZOR to vex, to exasperate, to enrage → 1895 Eng. dial.