A mild expression of annoyance or exasperation: bother!
"Botheration ! Who cares ? Why don't you ask if [our ancestors] carried pocket-books ?"
The state of being bothered; annoyance, vexation.
1803, William Blake, Letter to his brother James Blake dated 30 January, 1803, in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman, New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1970, p. 696, I write in great haste & with a head full of botheration about various projected works …
From bother + -ation (suffix indicating an action or process, or its result).
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An act of bothering or annoying.
A person or thing that causes bother, inconvenience, trouble, etc.
[...] the by-products and botherations that go with pleasures make it hardly worth it. Sex is supposedly life's greatest pleasure and look what it gives you.