[f. prec. vb.]
† 1. (?) Blarney, humbug, palaver. Obs. Cf. BOTHER v. 4, BOTHERING.
1803. Bristed, Pedest. Tour, I. 267. Among an ignorant … peasantry the bother must consist of coarse and broad flattery laid on with a trowel.
1822. Hone, Slap at Slop Facetiæ, 24. In wishing that the Press should be securely chained, the Members of this Society have no desire to limit their own bother.
2. Petty trouble, worry; disturbance, ‘fuss.’
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge (1859), 283. We had a little bother with him at first.
1846. B. Barton, Selections (1849), 43. Without more putter and bother than the thing is worth.
1852. Thackeray, Esmond, III. i. (1876), 277. The right divine, about which Dr. Sacheverel and the High Church party in England were just now making a bother.
a. 1884. P’cess Alice, Mem., 147. Mountain air Weber wants me to have, and quiet, away from all bothers.
