[f. BOTHER v.]
† a. (?) Palavering, ‘humbugging.’ Obs. rare. b. Giving or taking trouble, worrying, perplexing.
1803. Bristed, Pedest. Tour, I. 76. The art and mystery of bothering, whose chief efficacy resides in a facility of talking an infinite deal of nothing with readiness and volubility.
1806. W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., XXII. 536/1. It [ambiguity] is a learned word for what the English call bothering, which is derived from both.
1884. E. Gurney, in Mind, Jan., 120. Any sort of argument or bothering has a singular effect in causing the ‘subject’s’ mind to drift into a deeper dream-like state.
