[Fr., f. tracasser to bustle, worry oneself: see -ERY.] A state of disturbance or annoyance; a turmoil, bother, fuss; an embroilment, petty quarrel. (Chiefly in pl.)
1656. [see prec.].
1658. Phillips, 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. Scott, Lett. to Miss J. Baillie, 17 Jan., in Lockhart. A wonderful man … acquainted with all the intrigues and tracasseries of the cabinets.
1833. T. Hook, Parson’s Dau., I. vii. Adept as she was in all the tracasseries of flirtation.
1879. Mrs. Lynn Linton, in Life, xvi. (1901), 219. Life seems to me empty of all but tracasseries.
