botherate en · VERB
Meanings
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(colloquial, nonstandard, transitive) To bother.
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.
2018, Emily Schoerning, Science Culture, Language, and Education in America, page 111:Stop botherating him, I say. He's got too much to worry about already.
2014, M. R. C. Kasasian, The Curse of the House of Foskett:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| botherating | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| botherated | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| botherated | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| botherates | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Relateds
Synonyms
test someone's patience · get under one's goat · bug · chap someone's hide · annoy · Idioms: · nettle · tee off · jazz · get someone's back up · harsh one's mellow · get on someone's tits · molest · get someone's nanny · grotch · vex · frustrate · sting · annoy · botherate · antagonize · piss off · bedevil · mommick · burn someone's ass · raise someone's hackles · get under someone's skin · exasperate · aggravate · irk · get on someone's nerves · grate · rub someone the wrong way · ruffle · pique · put someone's back up · grind one's gears · irritate · torque off · give someone the shits · storm · disgruntle · tick off · peeve · rub up the wrong way · trouble · get someone's Irish up · try one's patience · provoke · rile up · peeve off · vex · rankle · roil · boil someone's piss · get someone's nanny-goat · burn up · bother · acerbate · cheese off · hassle · devil · ruffle someone's feathers · hack off · nerve · get someone's dander up · nark · pee off · get on someone's wick · rile · wind up · persecute · get up · irritate · get someone's goat · get