botherate

English

Verb

botherate (third-person singular simple present botherates, present participle botherating, simple past and past participle botherated)

1. (nonstandard, transitive, colloquial) To bother.
   • 2014, M. R. C. Kasasian, The Curse of the House of Foskett:

     Stop botherating him, I say. He's got too much to worry about already.

   • 2018, Emily Schoerning, Science Culture, Language, and Education in America, page 111:

     Months of networking, botherating, begging, and pleading had finally gotten us a space. I was so excited. This would be far and away the largest and most important venue where we'd ever had the chance to exhibit.

Related terms

• botheration