botheration

A mild expression of annoyance or exasperation: bother!

"Botheration ! Who cares ? Why don't you ask if [our ancestors] carried pocket-books ?"

Botheration! How she had crumpled her skirt, kneeling in that idiotic way.

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 …

[...] I am determined to be peevish after my long day's botheration.

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.