to work (also do) annoy and variants: to discomfort, trouble; to do damage or harm; to cause annoyance, irritation, or vexation. Frequently with a…

intransitive. Without construction: to cause annoyance or injury. Obsolete.

to do noisance: to do harm. Cf. noyance, n. 1.

transitive. To cause trouble, grief, or vexation to; to disturb, annoy, inconvenience. Occasionally intransitive. Now rare.

intransitive. colloquial. To cause trouble; to make a fuss; to fuss. Now rare.

intransitive. To cause annoyance; to be a source of irritation, exasperation, or displeasure.

With the. Anger, bad temper, pique, irritation; (also occasionally as a count noun) a fit or display of irritation, temper, etc. Chiefly in to get…

To cause trouble, to provoke authority; to make a nuisance of oneself. See 9c and stirrer, n. 1d. colloquial (chiefly Australian).