Bother vs Fother - What's the difference?
bother | fother |
To annoy, to disturb, to irritate.
To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome.
* Henry James
To do something which is of negligible inconvenience.
Fuss, ado.
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Trouble, inconvenience.
A mild expression of annoyance.
* 1926 , A A Milne, Winnie the Pooh'', Methuen & Co., Ltd., Chapter 2 ''...in which Pooh goes visiting and gets into a tight place :
(obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort.
an old English measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
*1866 : Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19½ hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times. —James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168.
(dialect) Food for animals.
* 1663 ,
*:He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother , / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
(unit of weight)
(dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
As verbs the difference between bother and fother
is that bother is to annoy, to disturb, to irritate while fother is (dialect) to feed animals (with fother).As nouns the difference between bother and fother
is that bother is fuss, ado while fother is (obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort.As an interjection bother
is a mild expression of annoyance.bother
English
Verb
(en verb)- Would it bother you if I smoked?
- Why do I even bother to try?
- without bothering about it
- You didn't even bother to close the door.
Synonyms
* (annoy, disturb ): annoy, disturb, irritate, put out, vex * See alsoUsage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive'' or the ''gerund (-ing) . SeeNoun
- There was a bit of bother at the hairdresser's when they couldn't find my appointment in the book.
- Yes, I can do that for you - it's no bother .
Interjection
- "Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
- "Oh, bother !" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
- "I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother !"