bebother
English
WOTD – 17 February 2013
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /bəˈbɑðɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəˈbɒðə/
- Hyphenation: be‧both‧er
Verb
bebother (third-person singular simple present bebothers, present participle bebothering, simple past and past participle bebothered)
- To bring trouble upon.
- The lady did not want to bebother her stylist for an extravagant dress design.
- 1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Broom-Squire, 1905, page 6,
- “There is brass for all. Just home, paid off—and find my wife dead—and me saddled with the yowling kid. I’m off to sea again. Don’t see no sport widering here all bebothered with a baby.”
- 1908, Edward Lear, Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave, page 114:
- At present I am all upside down—nohow—bebothered—& can only write this much.
- 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 1, in The Hobbit:
- ‘Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!’ he said aloud.
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