tracasserien.
A state of disturbance or annoyance; a turmoil, bother, fuss; an embroilment, petty quarrel. (Chiefly in plural.)
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [noun] > briskness or activeness > bustle or fuss
to-doc1330
adoc1380
great (also much) cry and little woolc1460
feery-fary1535
fray1568
stirc1595
do1598
coil1599
hurl1603
ruffle1609
clutterment1611
buzz1628
bustle1637
paddle1642
racket1644
clutter1652
tracas1656
tracasserie1656
circumference1667
flutter1667
hurly-burly1678
fuss1701
fissle1719
fraise1725
hurry-scurry1753
fix-fax1768
fal-lal1775
widdle1789
touse1792
fuffle1801
going-on1817
hurry and scurry1823
sputter1823
tew1825
Bob's-a-dying1829
fidge1832
tamasha1842
mulling1845
mussing1846
fettling1847
fooster1847
trade1854
scrimmage1855
carry-on1861
fuss-and-feathers1866
on-carry1870
make-a-do1880
miration1883
razzle-dazzle1885
song and dance1885
to get a rustle on1891
tea-party1903
stirabout1905
whoop-de-do1910
chichi1928
production1941
go-go1966
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [noun]
annoy?c1225
noyancec1400
vexation?a1425
crabbingc1450
annoyance1502
grudging1530
vexation of spirit1535
fret1556
fashery1558
spitea1586
gall1591
molestation1598
annoyment1607
incommodation1664
vexednessa1670
tracasserie1715
incommodement1733
frettation1779
vex1815
balls-ache1938
sterks1941
society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > petty quarrel
feudc1565
squabble1602
prabble1603
squabbling1611
bangling1612
pickeering1650
squabblement1731
tift1751
tiff1753
spat1804
tracasserie1812
1656 T. Blount Glossographia (following Cotgrave) Tracas, or Tracasserie.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Tracasserie (French), a needlesse hurrying, or restlesse travelling up and down.
1715 in P. M. Thornton Stuart Dynasty (1890) App. i. 353 I am of your opinion that to avoid tracassaries one should let the different correspondences take their course.
1812 W. Scott Let. 17 Jan. (1932) III. 60 A wonderful man..acquainted with all the intrigues and tracasserie of the cabinets..of foreign courts.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter I. vii. 118 Adept as she was in all the tracasseries of flirtation.
1879 Mrs. E. Lynn Linton in Life (1901) xvi. 219 Life seems to me empty of all but tracasseries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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