- (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.
- (v.t.) To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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