botheration

Example Sentences

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But he never wants to stop taking the mic, at the Comedy Store or across the country, and churning his botheration into laughs.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2019

With his simplicity and shrewdness and "gesture of botheration," he is a unique and lovable literary creation.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Don’t ever do that to me again! That’s about all the botheration a body can stand for one day!”

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

You want to walk me straight into those botheration Punic Wars, it's no go, though; I sha'n't break cover in that direction.'

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various

Och, botheration to the respect that's bought, by knocking one shilling against another, at an inn!

From John Bull The Englishman's Fireside: A Comedy, in Five Acts by Colman, George