bother ment (boTHer ment)

[ I'm sure 't would be a bother ment to a living soul to lose so much money. J. F. Cooper. bothersome (boTH'er-sum), a. [ bother + -some.] Troublesome; annoying; inconvenient. By his bothersome questioning of all traditional as sump The American , VII. 235. tions. They [casements) open sidewise, in two wings, and are screwed together by that bothersome little iron handle over which we have fumbled so often in European inns. H. James, Jr., Portraits of Places, p. 353.