Definition of Bother

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Bother

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.

One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.

Related Definitions:

Annoy, Annoyance, Anxiety, As, Be, Bother, Care, Disturbance, Embarrassment, Feel, In, Make, Of, One, Or, Perplex, Perplexity, Petty, Pother, See, State, Take, That, To, Trouble, Troublesome, Which, Who, Worry

Bother Quotations

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
Mike Tyson

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut

Bother Translations

bother in Danish is forstyrre, hindre
bother in Dutch is belemmeren, storen, hinderen
bother in Finnish is vaivata
bother in Italian is frastornare
bother in Norwegian is bryderi
bother in Spanish is estorbar, fastidiar

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