Bore

a troublesome friend or acquaintance, perhaps so called from his unvaried and pertinacious pushing; a nuisance; anything which wearies or annoys. The Gradus ad Cant a brig i am suggests the derivation of BORE from the Greek Βάρος, a burden. Shakspeare uses it, King Henry VIII. , i. 1— “——at this instant He BORES me with some trick.”