Bother
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late 17th century (as a noun in the dialect sense ‘noise, chatter’): of Anglo-Irish origin; probably related to Irish bodhaire ‘noise’, bodhraim ‘deafen, annoy’. The verb (originally dialect) meant ‘confuse with noise’ in the early 18th century.
wiktionary
Borrowed from Scots bauther, bather(“to bother”). Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Scots pother(“to make a stir or commotion, bustle”), also of unknown origin. Compare English pother(“to poke, prod”), variant of potter(“to poke”). More at potter. Perhaps related to Irish bodhaire(“noise”), Irish bodhraim(“to deafen, annoy”). [1]
etymonline
bother (v.)
1718, also bauther, bather, bodder, "to bewilder, confuse;" 1745 as "give trouble to," probably from Anglo-Irish pother, because its earliest use was by Irish writers (Sheridan, Swift, Sterne). Perhaps from Irish bodhairim "I deafen." Related: Bothered; bothering. As a noun from 1803.
