| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To trouble, worry, inconvenience, disquiet or hassle.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To disturb, incommode, derange, intrude or unhinge.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Present participle conjugation of the verb bother.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (bother) | 1. Take the trouble to do something; concern oneself; "Don't bother, please".[Wordnet]. 2. To cause inconvenience or discomfort to.[Wordnet]. 3. Intrude or enter uninvited; "Don't bother the professor while she is grading term papers".[Wordnet]. 4. Make nervous or agitated; "The mere thought of her bothered him and made his heart beat faster".[Wordnet]. 5. Make confused or perplexed or puzzled.[Wordnet]. 6. Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves".[Wordnet]. 7. To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex.[Websters]. 8. To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: bothering, bothered, bothers, botherer, botherers, botheringly and botheredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being confusing or puzzling.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being offending or irritating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being tantalizing, exciting or worrying. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being stimulating or rousing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being annoying, vexing, troublesome or vexatious. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being stunning or overwhelming. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being encouraging or energizing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being shattering, crushing or smashing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being disturbing or disquieting. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Being irksome or tiresome.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "BOTHERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1466. (references) |
Specialty Definition: bother
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | 1: Bother i.e. pother (Hibernian). Halliwell gives us blother, which he says means to chatter idly. 2: " `Sir,' cries the umpire, `cease your pother, 3: The creature's neither one nor t'other.' " 4: The Irish bdhar (buaidhirt, trouble), or its cognate verb, to deafen, seems to be the original word. 5: Lloyd: The Chameleon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| MultiLingual Slang | Spanish (joder). (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: bother
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Don't Bother Me | Don't Bother Me was the first song George Harrison ever wrote. It was recorded with The Beatles on September 11 and September 12, 1963. It originally appeared on the group's With the Beatles album in the UK (see 1963 in music) and on their Meet the Beatles! album in the US (see 1964 in music). (references) | ||
| Don't Bother to Knock | Don't Bother to Knock is a 1952 film. The drama stars Marilyn Monroe as Nell Forbes, a disturbed babysitter watching a child at the same New York hotel pilot Jed Towers (Richard Widmark) is staying. Towers sees her through his window and the two meet. Towers witnesses her strange behavior and becomes increasingly aware that Nell is the last person the couple (played by Jim Backus and Lurene Tuttle) should have entrusted with their daughter. This is actress Anne Bancroft's first film. The title credit music was used previously in the film Panic in the Streets (1950). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: bother
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To bother | MultiLingual Slang | Spanish (joder). (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: bother | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| No Bother To Me | 23 | A Spot of Bother | 4 | |
| Don't Bother | 22 | Don't Bother | 22 | |
| Don't Bother Me | 22 | Don't Bother Me | 22 | |
| Don't Bother to Knock | 12 | Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope | 5 | |
| Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope | 5 | Don't Bother to Knock | 12 | |
| A Spot of Bother | 4 | Hey Girl Don't Bother Me | 3 | |
| Why Bother at All EP | 4 | No Bother To Me | 23 | |
| Hey Girl Don't Bother Me | 3 | Why Bother at All EP | 4 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
