bother

1. 1.

   (transitive)To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for.

   Would it bother you if I smoked?

   Đồng nghĩa: annoy, disturb, inconvenience, irritate, put out, vex, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, cheese off, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, tick off, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, tee off, torque off, agitate, freak, bother, bring down, discompose, disconcert, enturbulate, disturb, mortify, perturb, put out, ruffle, throw off balance, unsettle, upset, flurry

2. 2.

   (intransitive, reflexive)(intransitive or reflexive) To feel care or concern; to burden or inconvenience oneself out of concern.

   I never bother about such trivialities.

   I wouldn't bother with an umbrella if I were you.

   Đồng nghĩa: care, mind, becare, bother, care, concern oneself, heed, mind, reck, trouble oneself, worry

3. 3.

   (catenative, intransitive)To take the trouble, to trouble oneself (to do something).

   Why do I even bother to try?

   Đồng nghĩa: go to the trouble, take the trouble

1. 1.

   (countable, uncountable)Fuss, ado.

   There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.

   Đồng nghĩa: ado, argy-bargy, bangarang, bobbery, brouhaha, bunfight, bustle, bust-up, chaos, ferment, clamour, clatter, commotion, disruption, disturbance, flap, foofaraw, fracas, furor, fuss, hobbleshaw, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, kerfuffle, mayhem, merry hell, outcry, palaver, pandemonium, pother, quarrel, riot, rowdydow, ruckus, rumpus, shemozzle, shindy, splatterdash, stir, stooshie, three-ring circus, to-do, tomfoolery, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, uproar, upstir

2. 2.

   (countable, uncountable)Trouble, inconvenience.

   Yes, I can do that for you—it’s no bother.

   Đồng nghĩa: annoyance, bother, faff, grievance, hassle, inconvenience, irritation, nuisance, palaver, peeve, plague, trouble, vexation

bother!

1. 1.

   (dated, euphemistic)A mild expression of annoyance.

   "Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back." "Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on." "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!"