TIRESOME, TIRESOMENESS
ADJECTIVES
► BAGGERING ► BEGGARING worrying, tiresome → 1873 Eng. dial.
► BORESOME tiresome, boring → 1895
► CARKING anxious, fretting, wearying, tiresome → 1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DAGALI tedious, tiresome → 1914 Sc.
► FAGGIE fatiguing, tiresome, wearisome → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► FAGSUM fatiguing, tiresome, wearisome → 1825 Sc. obs.
► FASHIOUS causing or giving anxiety or trouble; tiresome, vexatious → 1536 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► GALLOWS mischievous, wild, impish, unmanageable, tiresome; impudent, saucy → 1875 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LANGERSOME boring, tedious, tiresome → 1880 Sc.
► LATESOME late; backward; slow, sluggish; tiresome, tedious ..a1382 rare, chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial. usage
► LONG-JAWED long-drawn-out, long-winded; tiresome → 1911 Amer. dial.
► MAWMISH tiresome → 19C obs.
► MEADLESS ► MEEDLESS troublesome, tiresome, unruly; restless → 1790 Eng. dial.
► OLD tiresome; usually constructed with ‘get’, as in ‘too much of a good thing gets old’ → 1864 colloq.
► PATAGUEING tiresome, provoking → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PLAYED OUT tiresome, boring → 1998 teen sl. (Bk.)
► RADICAL tiresome → 19C Eng. dial.
► SAWDUSTY without profound meaning or interest; tiresome
► STUPEFACTIVE extremely dull, tiresome, or boring → 1970
► TEARY-WEARY boring, tiresome → 1901 Sc.
► TEDDISOME fretful, fractious, tiresome → 1869 Eng. dial.
► TEWSOME ► TUSOME troublesome, tiresome; restless, unquiet → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIMEROUS ► TIMOROUS difficult to please, fretful; tiresome, difficult → 1684 Eng. dial.
► TIMMERSOME passionate, turbulent; restless, troublesome, tiresome → 1777 Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► BIND something boring or tiresome → 1930 Brit. sl., chiefly services’ sl.
► BINDER something boring or tiresome → 1930 Brit. sl., chiefly services’ sl.
► DRAG something boring or tiresome → 1857 sl.
► FAGSUMNESS tiresomeness → 1825 Sc. obs.
► YAWN anything or anyone considered tedious, boring, or tiresome, and thus producing yawns → L19 sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BLADDER-HEAD a stupid and tiresome talker; one who will keep on arguing and who will have the last word → 1883 (Bk.)
► CREEP an unpleasant or despicable person, a jerk, usually male; a worthless, stupid, or tiresome person → 1886 sl., orig. US
► DEVILSKIN a mischievous, tiresome person; a humorous term of reproach → 1874 Eng. dial.
► DEVIL’S LIMB an imp; a tiresome, troublesome person → 1714 Sc.
► DEVIL’S PETS an imp; a tiresome, troublesome person → 1856 Eng. dial.
► FEAGUE a tiresome, teasing child → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOPOKE a stupid, ineffectual, or tiresome person; a slow or lugubrious person; a fool; often used as a term of abuse → 1845 chiefly Aust.
► MOREPORK ► MOREPORK KIND OF A FELLOW a stupid or tiresome person; a fool; often used as a term of abuse → 1845 Aust. colloq.
► PAIN an annoying, bothersome, or tiresome person; a tedious or boring person; a nuisance → 1926
► PAIN IN THE ARSE a particularly annoying or tiresome person → 1934 sl.
► PAIN IN THE BUM an annoying or tiresome person; a nuisance → 1933
► PAIN IN THE NECK an annoying or tiresome person; a nuisance → 1941 sl.
► PAIN IN THE REAR END an annoying or tiresome person; a nuisance → 1937
► TASHEL a good-for-nothing man or woman; a drunkard; a slovenly woman; a troublesome or tiresome child → 1790 Eng. dial.
► TIKE ► TYKE a mischievous, tiresome child or boy; a term of reproach applied half playfully to children → 1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► YAWN anything or anyone considered tedious, boring, or tiresome, and thus producing yawns → L19 sl.