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語源

From bother +‎ -ation (suffix indicating an action または process, または its result).^[1]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˌbɒðəˈɹeɪʃn̩/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌbɑðəˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
• 韻: -eɪʃən
• ハイフネーション: bo‧ther‧a‧tion

間投詞

botheration (originally Ireland, dated, often humorous)

1. A mild expression of annoyance or exasperation: bother!
   • 1891, "A Live Issue" in Puck, p. 5:

     "Botheration ! Who cares ? Why don't you ask if [our ancestors] carried pocket-books ?"

   • 1918, Katherine Mansfield, "Prelude" in Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2002, p. 120

     Botheration! How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way.

   • 1955, C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, Collins, 1998, Chapter 3,

     "Blast and botheration!" exclaimed Digory. "What's gone wrong now? [...]"

名詞

botheration (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 botherations) (originally Ireland, dated, often humorous)

1. (uncountable) The state of being bothered; annoyance, vexation.

   Synonyms: irritation; see also Thesaurus:annoyance

   • 1803, William Blake, Letter to his brother James Blake dated 30 January, 1803, in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1970, p. 696,

     I write in great haste & with a head full of botheration about various projected works [...]

   • 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in A Tale of Two Cities‎^[1]:

     [...] I am determined to be peevish after my long day's botheration.

   • 1982, Saul Bellow, The Dean's December, New York: Pocket Books, 1983, Chapter 4, p. 59,

     At home he read too many papers. He was better off without his daily dose of world botheration, sham happenings, without newspaper phrases.

2. (countable) An act of bothering or annoying.
3. (countable) A person or thing that causes bother, inconvenience, trouble, etc.

   Synonym: nuisance

   • 1954, Peter De Vries, The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, Chapter Six, p. 63,

     [...] the by-products and botherations that go with pleasures make it hardly worth it. Sex is supposedly life's greatest pleasure and look what it gives you.

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