Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bother

Bother ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Compare Ir. buaidhirt trouble, buaidhrim I vex.]

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

The imperative is sometimes used as an exclamation mildly imprecatory.

Bother , intransitive verb

To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
Without bothering about it. — H. James

Bother , noun

One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother.