noun
- Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.
- usage: "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"
- synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck
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