(v. t.) To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
(v. i.) To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
(n.) One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(2) Unless you are part of some Unite-esque scheme to join up as part of a grand revolutionary plan, why would you bother shelling out for a membership card?
(3) Dinner is the usual “international” menu that few will bother with given the wealth of choice nearby.
(4) Despite excellent control of acute-stage emesis, some patients are still bothered by delayed emesis occurring more than 24 hours after cisplatin administration.
(5) Given this bipartisan strategy to minimise commitments, there is little wonder that voter turnout also reached a historical low, with less than two thirds bothering to vote in the east.
(6) I do think it is set fair but I am more bothered about the eurozone.
(7) These were: urinary symptoms, degree of bother due to urinary symptoms, BPH-specific interference with activities, general psychological well-being, worries and concerns, and sexual satisfaction.
(8) Interactive guide Election countdown: the key dates up to June 7 Interactive quizzes Can you be bothered?
(9) TV's Jeremy Paxman didn't even bother hiding his disdain for the introduction of weather reports to Newsnight – "It's April.
(10) And indeed both E.ON and SSE offer these for those who bother to switch,” he added.
(11) After the first couple days like everyone was like: 'Ah, I can't be bothered.
(12) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(13) I have been noticing, with sadness, that politicians do not even bother invoking the American Dream anymore.
(14) "No one ever bothered him at the suppers," former pastor Bob Moyer of Hartland told the paper.
(15) Refusing to play in the Seven Kingdoms league, the all black kit helps the team in matches against Wildling FC, who never bother to wear the same colours.
(16) No one else need bother to paint them as a ramshackle and rancorous rabble marooned in the past and without a plausible account of the future.
(17) With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote.
(18) A cursory web search would have helped but fewer of us bother when the news is relatively inconsequential.
(19) What bothers me is that a club would contact the manager of a national team without first notifying the Federation.
(20) Arsenal responded in the only way they know, with Ramsey, Mesut Özil, Jack Wilshere and Oxlade-Chamberlain all involved in intricate passing patterns on the edge of the area, though there was no end product to bother Tim Howard apart from another long shot from Oxlade-Chamberlain that drifted wide.
Rother
Definition:
(a.) Bovine.
(n.) A bovine beast.
(n.) A rudder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Panellist Kevin Barron, MP for Rother Valley, who was the chair of the health select committee in 2005-10, said that to save money we sometimes need to look beyond the NHS for smoking-cessation solutions.
(2) In Rotherham, Rother Valley, Dudley North, Plymouth Moor View and Penistone and Stocksbridge, the speed of Ukip's advance, coupled with evidence of a broader decline in blue-collar support for Labour, led the Fabians to talk of a " considerable vulnerability to Ukip ".
(3) This outbreak raises the concern of Rother outbreaks of cholera occuring on remote and poorly equipped Pacific islands where the environmental circumstances are conducive to cholera spread.
(4) Wolverhampton (19 days), north Norfolk and Sheffield (both 20 days) and Hastings and Rother in Kent (21) were the next fastest for giving patients the procedure.
(5) C3 nephritic factor (NEF), an IgG autoantibody to the alternative pathway C3 convertase, is usually measured by crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CI) but recently a reliable haemolytic assay (HA) was described by Rother (1982).
(6) But while the rivers Don, Rother, Hull and Derwent are at low or very low levels for the time of year, the Environment Agency said public water supplies were unlikely to be affected in the region.
(7) The high court in London ordered Jane Collins to pay £54,000 each to Sarah Champion, Kevin Barron and John Healey, the MPs for Rotherham, Rother Valley, and Wentworth and Dearne respectively.
(8) At the table Dave Brindle (Chair) Public services editor, the Guardian Kevin Barron MP for Rother Valley and former chair of the health select committee (2005-10) Steve Bedser Cabinet member, health and wellbeing, Birmingham city council Shirley Cramer Chief executive, Royal Society of Public Health Paula Chadwick Chief executive, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation Eugene Milne Director, adult health and wellbeing, Public Health England Credits Seminar report commissioned and controlled by the Guardian.
(9) Young men have their hair specially heseltined for their first speech at a Tory conference … One young man who had obviously had his hair heseltined for the day was a 16-year-old from the Rother valley called William Hague.
(10) Speaking to Sky News in January last year, Caven Vines, the former leader of Ukip on Rotherham council, claimed that the MP for Wentworth and Dearne, John Healey, and the MP for Rother Valley, Sir Kevin Barron, “knew what was going on”.
(11) It seems likely a scene-stealing turn as a vowel-mangling western star in the Coen rothers’ new period romp Hail, Caesar!