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单词 botherer
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botherern.

Brit. /ˈbɒð(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈbɑðərər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bother v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < bother v. + -er suffix1.In recent use in sense 2 after God-botherer n. at god n. and int. Compounds 1e.
1. A person who or thing which bothers, annoys, or harasses someone.
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1815 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 28 Oct. 102/2 A degree of embarrassment, which that bold botherer, Pitt, never had to encounter.
1837 B. Disraeli Venetia II. 105 ‘Ah! Death,’ said Lord Cadureis, ‘that is a botherer.’
1912 Conservator Jan. 164/1 I guess I was born to be a botherer of men. I was never willing to let good enough stand for good.
2010 Independent 27 Jan. (Life section) 5/1 If you ever want to get anyone off your back, you just say..‘I'm calling the cops.’.. Your botherer [is] gone within the first five seconds.
2. With modifying word: one who persistently pursues, annoys, or (in ironic use) is overly attentive to or enthusiastic about the person or thing specified. Cf. God-botherer n. at god n. and int. Compounds 1e.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun] > cause of annoyance or vexation > one who or that which annoys
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annoyancec1405
offender?a1425
fretter?1504
traik1513
vexer1530
annoying1566
annoyer1577
plagueship1628
annoyancer1632
disobliger1648
nuisance1661
galler1674
bug1785
torment1785
botheration1801
nark1846
scunner1865
bother1866
botherer1869
crucifier1870
dinlo1873
bastard1919
skelf1927
dick1966
wazzock1976
knob jockey1989
1869 E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen Stories for my Children 297 He was unable to raise to his lips the cup containing syrup of goose which was handed to him by the faithful Game-botherer.
1885 E. A. Freeman Let. 10 May in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. x. 334 These physical science-botherers do roar in the midst of our Congregations, and set up their ologies for endless tokens.
1940 Daily Independent (Kannapolis, N. Carolina) 10 Dec. 8/6 The special squad of detectives assigned to the subways to halt the wave of women-botherers.
1969 A. Cordell Song of Earth (1972) v. 37 It was fists and boots on Saturday nights..with Welsh scum this and Irish bastard that and Chapel botherers here and Popish swines there.
1974 N.Y. Mag. 24 June 54/1 Efforts [in the art world] that engage noncreative people, such as collectors, curators, dealers, and..‘art botherers’.
2005 J. Gisby (title) New Zealand with a hobbit botherer.
2008 Marketing (Nexis) 28 May 32 [His] brother is Sky News political editor and perennial politician-botherer Adam Boulton.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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