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Botheration

The act of bothering or state of being bothered cause of trouble perplexity annoyance vexation...

Oral argument, is the one chance for you (not for some chance-assigned mere judge) to answer any questions you can stir any member of the court into being bothered about and into bothering with, and the one chance to sew up each such question into a remembered point in favour. In any but freak situations, oral argument is a must, The Common Law Tradition: Deciding Appeals, Karl No. Llewellyn, 240 (1960).Means an advocate's spoken presentation before a court (esp. an appellate court) supporting or opposing the legal relief at issue, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1122....

Bother

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

Bothersome

Vexatious causing bother causing trouble or perplexity troublesome...

henpeck

To bother persistently with trivial complaints to subject to petty authority said of a woman who thus treats her male companion especially of wives who thus dominate their husbands Commonly used in the past participle often adjectively as henpecked for years he finally left her...

Pother

Bustle confusion tumult flutter bother...

Infest

Infest, according to Webster's New World Diction-ary 'infest' means 'to overrun or inhabit in large numbers, usually so as to be harmful or bother-some, swarm in or about'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'any of a large group of small invertebrate animals characterised, in the adult state, by division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of membranous wings: beetles, bees, flies, wasps, mosquitoes, etc. are insects'. According to the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 'worm' means 'a slender, creeping, naked, limbless animal usually brown or reddish with a soft body divided into a series of segments; an earthworm'. According to that dictionary an 'insect' means 'a small invertebrate animal, usually having a body divided into segments, and several pairs of legs, and often winged'. According to Webster's Illustrated Contemporary Dictionary (Encyclopedic Edition), 'infest' means 'to overrun or spread in large numbers so as to be unpleasant or unsafe', St...

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