troublen.
/ˈtrʌbl/, U.S. /ˈtrəb(ə)l/ 1. † d. Harm, injury, offence. Obsolete.
a. Disturbance of mind or feelings; worry, vexation; affliction; grief; perplexity; distress.Now often also in lighter use, expressing any degree, however slight, of embarrassment or ‘bother’, or a condition of suffering some inconvenience or discomfort.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun]
sorec888
teeneOE
sorrowOE
workOE
wrakeOE
careOE
gramec1000
harmOE
howc1000
trayOE
woweOE
angec1175
derfnessc1175
sytec1175
unwinc1175
wosithc1200
ail?c1225
barrat?c1225
derf?c1225
grief?c1225
misease?c1225
misliking?c1225
ofthinkingc1225
passion?c1225
troublec1230
pinec1275
distress1297
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penancea1300
cumbermentc1300
languorc1300
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angera1325
strifea1325
sweama1325
woea1325
painc1330
tribulationc1330
illa1340
threst1340
constraintc1374
troublenessc1380
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bruisinga1382
miseasetya1382
pressurec1384
exercisec1386
miscomfortc1390
mislikea1400
smarta1400
thronga1400
balec1400
painfulnessc1400
troublancec1400
smartness?c1425
painliness1435
perplexity?a1439
penalty?1462
calamity1490
penality1496
cumber?a1513
sussy1513
tribule1513
afflict?1529
vexation of spirit1535
troublesomeness1561
hoe1567
grievedness1571
tribulance1575
languishment1576
thrall1578
tine1590
languorment1593
aggrievedness1594
obturbation1623
afflictedness1646
erumny1657
pathos1684
shock1705
dree1791
vex1815
wrungnessa1875
dukkha1886
thinkache1892
sufferation1976
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction
teeneOE
harmOE
sourc1000
trayOE
angec1175
wosithc1200
ail?c1225
barrat?c1225
misease?c1225
passion?c1225
troublec1230
sorenessc1275
grievancea1300
cumbermentc1300
cumbering1303
thro1303
angera1325
strifea1325
sweama1325
encumbrancec1330
tribulationc1330
threst1340
mischiefa1375
pressc1375
unhend1377
miseasetya1382
angernessc1390
molestc1390
troublancec1400
notea1425
miseasenessc1450
cumber?a1513
tribule1513
unseasonableness?1523
troublesomeness1561
tribulance1575
tine1590
trials and tribulations1591
pressure1648
difficulty1667
hell to pay1758
dree1791
trial and tribulation1792
Queer Street1811
Sturm und Drang1857
a thin time1924
shit1929
crap1932
shtook1936
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > [noun]
troublec1230
troublingc1340
troublancec1400
troublement1484
fretting1526
maceration1616
troubledness1631
heartburn1747
bother1761
embroil1799
worry1804
worrit1818
botherment1821
worriment1833
worriting1845
c1230 Hali Meid. 29 Godes spuses þat ise swote eise wiðute swuch trubuil.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 14 Out of the lond he put awey alle trobelle, And made of newe oure joies to be dobelle.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Bi The greuaunce trouble and vexacyon of the good persone hath gretter cause of pyte..than of the euyll persone.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxxv[i]. 7 In the tyme of my trouble I call vpon the.
1611 Bible (King James) Job v. 7 Man is borne vnto trouble [earlier vv. labour, travail], as the sparkes flie vpward. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 96 The trouble of thy thoughts..in sleep. View more context for this quotation
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 126 In Trouble to be troubl'd, Is to have your Trouble doubl'd.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 255 Her head was so carried with pain of body and trouble of mind.
1910 Stage Year Bk. 23 There are two services [of electricity] installed, to prevent trouble in case of a breakdown on the mains.
1915 N.E.D. at Trouble Mod. The family were in great trouble on account of the death of the eldest son.
b. With a and plural. An instance of this; a misfortune, calamity; a distressing or vexatious circumstance, occurrence, or experience.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > circumstance or occurrence
plightc1300
woea1325
fanda1400
afflictionc1429
assayc1430
brier?1504
trouble?1521
distress1549
smarts1552
say?1572
infliction1590
disaccommodation1645
trial1754
ordeal1807
time1809
kill-cow1825
Via Crucis1844
Via Dolorosa1844
racket1877
pisser1957
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck
unsitheOE
evila1300
mischiefa1325
illa1340
adversity1340
infortunea1393
infortunity1477
cladec1480
misfortunec1485
fortune1490
trouble?1521
stumble1547
infelicity1575
disgrace1622
unfortunacya1662
disgracia1740
miscanter1781
reversal1846
avalanche1850
rough spin1919
?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Biv Graunt me a lyueng suffycient..And voyde of troubles.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccviij The Ambassadours were in a pecke of troubles.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 244 Troubles come in an hundred wayes.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. i. 61 To take Armes against a sea of troubles . View more context for this quotation
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iii. 20 The trouble is this. That when as my children doe first enter into Latine, manie of them will forget to reade English.
1861 F. A. Paley Æschylus' Choephori (ed. 2) 683 (note) At the very time when his troubles seemed at an end.
1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. 5 She was determined to share his every trouble.
c. transferred. A thing or person that gives trouble; an occasion or cause of affliction or distress.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > cause of
evilc897
anguishc1330
discomfortc1405
trouble1591
dree1791
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [noun]
sorrowOE
ail?c1225
scorpion?c1225
dolec1290
angera1325
anguishc1330
cupa1340
aggrievancea1400
discomfortc1405
afflictionc1429
sytec1440
pressurea1500
constraint1509
tenterhook1532
grief1535
annoying1566
troubler1567
griper1573
vexation1588
infliction1590
trouble1591
temptationc1595
load1600
torment1600
wringer1602
sorance1609
inflicting1611
brusha1616
freighta1631
woe-heart1637
ordeala1658
cut-up1782
unpleasure1792
iron maiden1870
mental cruelty1899
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 228 The Germans..were..a kinde of vnprofitable troubles of a campe.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. i. 14 Your appointed Feasts..are a trouble vnto me, I am weary to beare them. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 151 Alack, what trouble Was I then to you? View more context for this quotation
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 29 The more his Trouble as the more admir'd.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 86 The useful trouble of the rain.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > harm, injury, or wrong > [noun]
loathc900
harmOE
teenOE
griefc1330
injurec1374
injuryc1384
truitc1390
spitea1400
wrethec1400
supprise1442
trouble1463
damage1470
objectionc1475
interess1489
tort1532
mishanter1754
1463 G. Ashby Prisoner's Refl. 255 Seyntes..That suffred trowbyll with out resystence.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 281 The Fleminges did the French men great trouble.
e. my troubles, a dismissive exlamation: ‘don't worry about me’: ‘I don't care’. Australian colloquial.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > exhortation to ignore [interjection]
my troubles1895
forget it1903
1895 C. Crowe Austral. Slang Dict. 89 My troubles, what do I care.
1905 N. Spielvogel Gumsucker on Tramp 90 Off again; round Leuwin Cape; rough seas; My Troubles! I'm coming home.
1947 G. Casey Wits are Out 44 ‘You better lay off Kitty while the old man's about, or there'll be one more out-of-work motor salesman kicking round the city,’ Syd suggested. ‘My troubles!’ Jerry jeered.
f. Usually with qualifying noun: faulty working of apparatus or machinery, esp. on a motor vehicle; a problem caused by this (engine trouble, etc.). In transferred use also applied to personal relations, as wife trouble.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > with machinery or apparatus
trouble1902
the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > a difficulty > specific personal problem
woman trouble1889
clientitis1938
drink problem1977
trouble1981
1902 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 44 213 Although it seems to fit the water tube troubles, it does not answer so well with the furnace troubles.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 2/1 The only other serious difficulty [with the Wright biplane] seems to be what is known, generically, as ‘engine trouble’... The forms that this ‘engine trouble’ takes are various, as every motorist knows.
1981 P. Audemars Gone to her Death iii. 61 The local garagist..has wife trouble, because she has the money he needs.
g. trouble and strife, rhyming slang for: (a) ‘life’ (rare); (b) ‘wife’.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun]
lifeOE
life and limbc1275
life and memberc1275
being1521
trouble and strife1908
blood-being1915
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife
wifeeOE
womanc1275
peerc1330
spousessc1384
ladyc1390
good lady1502
girl?a1513
spousage1513
little lady1523
the weaker vessel1526
companion1535
wedlock1566
Mrs1572
dame1574
rib?1590
feme1595
fathom1602
feme covert1602
shrew1606
wife of one's bosom1611
kickie-wickiea1616
heifer1616
sposa1624
bosom-partner1633
goodwife1654
little woman1715
squaw1767
the Mrs1821
missus1823
maw1826
lady wife1840
tart1864
mistress1873
mama1916
ball and chain1921
trouble and strife1929
old boot1958
1908 ‘Doss Chiderdoss’ in Sporting Times 11 July 1/3 I shouted, ‘Your “bees”, or your “trouble and strife”!’ Like the hero in ‘Highwayman Harry’.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. ii. 611 The old trouble-and-strife, eh?
1949 A. Wilson Wrong Set 62 ‘Thanks for looking after my old trouble and strife’ said Bruce.
1959 J. Osborne World Paul Slickey ii. x. 86 My posh trouble-and-strife, I'll be hers.
1977 G. Fisher Villain of Piece i. 7 It's the old trouble and strife—wife. I want to see her all right.
h. trouble at (the or t') mill: an industrial dispute, as at a Midlands or North Country textile mill; also transferred and figurative, alluding to any disagreement or problem at work, home, etc.
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society > society and the community > dissent > [noun]
unsibeOE
unsaughta1122
un-i-sibc1275
conteckc1290
discordingc1325
distancec1325
discordance1340
dissensionc1384
batea1400
discordc1425
variancec1425
variationc1485
disgreement?1504
distinction1520
factiona1538
jar1546
variety1546
disagreeance1548
disagreeing1548
disagreement1548
misliking1564
odds1567
mislikea1586
discordancy1587
disagree1589
distancy1595
dissent1596
dislike1598
secting1598
dichostasy1606
fraction1609
dissentation1623
ill blood1624
misintelligence1632
clashing1642
misunderstanding1642
discomposure1659
disjointinga1715
uneasiness1744
friction1760
misunderstand1819
unharmony1866
inharmony1867
trouble at (the or t') mill1967
1967 ‘J. Winton’ H.M.S. Leviathan xx. 333 He replaced the receiver, and assumed a passable Yorkshire accent. ‘Ah'm sorry, lass, but there's trouble down at t'mill... It looks as if we've got to go to sea in a hurry.’
1977 New Scientist 14 Apr. 84/1 This latter-day trouble at t'mill seems to stem from a dispute about what we mean by such expressions as ‘use water’ or ‘abstract water’ [at a water-mill].
1982 Times 26 Aug. 16/7 Stanley has trouble at mill. A G Stanley Holdings..has dropped into losses at the interim stage..mainly because of continued problems at its Holmes Chapel wallpaper mill.
1984 Times 15 Sept. 8/1 There's trouble at t'mill in the board room of Grimsby Town Football Club.
2. β. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 497/1 Torble, or torblynge,..turbacio.1463 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. lxix When any turble or enterprise was like to fall hurt or scaythe to the Kings people.
a. Public disturbance, disorder, or confusion; with a and plural an instance of this, a disturbance, an agitation.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > political unrest > [noun]
stirringa1154
motiona1387
troublec1435
misrule1442
commotion1471
stir1487
misgovernment1565
welteringa1586
confusions1599
distemper1605
distemperature?1606
convulsion1643
unsettlement1649
upturning1846
upturn1864
the natives are restless1950
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun]
winOE
torpelness?c1225
disturbance1297
workc1325
disturblingc1330
farec1330
frapec1330
disturbing1340
troublingc1340
blunderc1375
unresta1382
hurling1387
perturbationc1400
turbationc1400
rumblec1405
roara1413
rumourc1425
sturblance1435
troublec1435
stroublance1439
hurlc1440
hurly-burlyc1440
ruffling1440
stourc1440
rumblingc1450
sturbancec1450
unquietness?c1450
conturbationc1470
ruption1483
stir1487
wanrufe?a1505
rangat?a1513
business1514
turmoil1526
blommera1529
blunderinga1529
disturbation1529
bruyllie1535
garboil1543
bruslery1546
agitation1547
frayment1549
turmoiling1550
whirl1552
confusion1555
troublesomeness1561
rule1567
rummage1575
rabble1579
tumult1580
hurlement1585
rabblement1590
disturb1595
welter1596
coil1599
hurly1600
hurry1600
commotion1616
remotion1622
obturbation1623
stirrance1623
tumultuation1631
commoving1647
roiling1647
spudder1650
suffle1650
dissettlement1654
perturbancy1654
fermentationa1661
dissettledness1664
ferment1672
roil1690
hurry-scurry1753
vortex1761
rumpus1768
widdle1789
gilravagea1796
potheration1797
moil1824
festerment1833
burly1835
fidge1886
static1923
comess1944
frammis1946
bassa-bassa1956
1378 Rolls of Parl. III. 43/1 Le Roialme en diverses parties est mys en grant troboill.]
c1435 in C. L. Kingsford Chron. London (1905) 85 To eschew Rebellion, dysobeyssaunce and Trouble.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) xvii. 153 Wheroff hath comyn..mony gret trowbels and debates.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 87 Mansleyng, þeft,..corrupcoun,..trouby [l] , periury.
1550 H. Latimer Moste Faithfull Serm. before Kynges Maiestye sig. Aiiii The Sermon maketh trouble and rebellyon in the Realme.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxx. 184 It is a hard matter to know who expecteth benefit from publique troubles.
1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality I. i. 40 [Then] the troubles happened, and Cromwell assum'd the regency.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 105 They were to be allowed to exercise any profession which they had exercised before the troubles.
b. the troubles, the Troubles. Any of various rebellions, civil wars, and periods of conflict in Ireland, spec. in 1919–23 and (in Northern Ireland) from the late 1960s until the ‘Good Friday’ Agreement of 10 April 1998.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > civil war > specific
civil war1712
the troubles1786
English Civil War1794
Wars of the Roses1809
the late unpleasantness1866
War between the States1867
Spanish Civil War1936
Spanish War1937
a1676 B. Whitlocke Mem. Eng. Affairs (1682) 410/1 Mr. Peters the Minister, was arrived in Dublin, and that at the beginning of the Troubles in Ireland, he had a Brigade against the Rebels.]
1786 J. Curry Hist. & Crit. Rev. Civil Wars Irel. xi. 232 Sir Robert Talbot of Castle-Talbot, in the county of Wicklow, repaired to Dublin, in the beginning of the troubles.
1831 J. Hardiman Irish Minstrelsy II. Notes 150 The opening of the first stanza describes the peaceable state of the country before the troubles, when a portentous calm prevailed.
1873 T. N. Burke Irel. & Irish 41 In the year 1798, the ‘year of the troubles’. as we may well call it, some ninety Wexford men..made their last stand on the banks of the river Boyne.
1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down 109 Troubles, the, the Irish rebellion of 1641.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 231 Times of the troubles... Somewhere here Lord Edward Fitzgerald escaped from major Sirr.
1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 661/3 A weak Government.., a new wave of nationalist exaltation, an untrained army of youths brought up on war rations..—these factors were sufficient to account for the troubles of 1919–21.
1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 235 The ruins of a police barracks, built to command the road through the valley, burnt in the troubles,..were one green with the grass.
1949 C. Graves Ireland Revisited vi. 57 ‘This was where Michael Dwyer was in keeping during the Troubles,’ Mackey vouchsafed. (‘In keeping’ means being on the run.)
1959 Listener 2 July 32/1 The complicated political and personal passions inspired by ‘the troubles’.
1968 M. Collis Somerville & Ross xxv. 258 As the Troubles were over more than ten years before [1936], how came it that Admiral Boyle, living in quiet retirement and much liked by high and low, was singled out?
1981 M. Kenyon Zigzag i. 6 Before the new Troubles..he had fallen in love with romantic Ireland.
3. Pains or exertion, esp. in accomplishing or attempting something; care, toil, labour. to put to (the) trouble, to take (the) trouble.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > trouble taken to accomplish anything
whilec1175
painc1330
pine?c1335
teenc1380
adoc1400
labourc1405
painsc1480
trouble1577
fatigue1669
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)]
tillc897
stightlea1375
stretcha1375
wrestlea1382
to put it forthc1390
to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398
paina1400
takea1400
to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430
to make great force?c1450
makec1485
to stir one's stumpsa1500
to bestir one's stumps1549
to make work1574
put1596
bestira1616
operate1650
to lay out1659
to be at pains1709
exerta1749
tew1787
maul1821
to take (the) trouble1830
to pull outc1835
bother1840
trouble1880
to buck up1890
hump1897
to go somea1911
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 35v This pulse [sc. Lupin] requireth least trouble.
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 248 That trouble we had been at, put us all in a sweat.
1729 W. Law Serious Call iii. 31 If it costs me no pains or trouble.
1830 R. J. Raymond Oh! Men what Silly Things You Are (song) 3 She marks you down, fly where you will..Can wing you, feather you or kill, Just as she takes the trouble.
1840 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. vii. 108 To be quit of the trouble and expense of the garden.
1856 Titan Mag. Dec. 525/1 He..did not care to put himself to the least trouble.
1866 Duke of Argyll Reign of Law vii. 405 Wherever we take the trouble to trace any..phenomena through the sequences of cause and effect.
1912 Oxf. Mag. 14 Nov. 78/1 To save themselves the trouble of thinking.
4.
a. A disease, disorder, ailment; a morbid affection.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun]
soreOE
cothec1000
sicknessc1000
evilc1275
maladyc1275
grievance1377
passiona1382
infirmityc1384
mischiefa1387
affectiona1398
grievinga1398
grief1398
sicka1400
case?a1425
plaguec1425
diseasea1475
alteration1533
craze1534
uncome1538
impediment1542
affliction?1555
ailment1606
disaster1614
garget1615
morbus1630
ail1648
disaffect1683
disorder1690
illness1692
trouble1726
complaint1727
skookum1838
claim1898
itis1909
bug1918
wog1925
crud1932
bot1937
lurgy1947
Korean haemorrhagic fever1951
nadger1956
1726 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 267 Riding..agrees much with my trouble which I am not altogether free of.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 882 Perityphlitis due to trouble in the cæcum.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 16 Writer's cramp and like troubles.
b. A woman's travail. (Also of an animal.) dialect or euphemistic.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > birth > confinement > [noun] > labour or pains
cothec1000
throea1200
pining throesc1225
travailc1300
showera1350
paina1398
travailinga1400
throng1540
labouring1598
travail pang1652
travail pain1662
labour pains1703
mother-pain1709
mother-pang1710
breeding sicknessa1714
bearing pain1787
troublea1825
birth throe1837
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) She is now in her trouble.
1877 H. Smart Bound to Win i Calvert came..and told me Veturia [the mare] was getting very close upon her trouble.
1889 ‘M. Gray’ Reproach of Annesley iii. i. 95 He rode over the bleak downs to help Daniel Pink's wife in her trouble.
1896 ‘A. Lilburn’ Borderer xxix. 219 Come now, my canny woman, you must try and drink this, or you'll never win through your trouble.
1901 ‘M. E. Francis’ Pastorals of Dorset 162 When I'm over my trouble I'll come to see you.
5. In various other special applications, euphemistic, colloquial, dialectal, or vulgar.
a. Unpleasant relations with the authorities, esp. such as involve arrest, summons before a magistrate, imprisonment, or punishment; e.g. to bring oneself into trouble, to get into trouble; to be in trouble, to be in jail (slang). Also to ask for trouble: see ask v. Phrases 13. Similarly, to look for (or seek) trouble.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > involvement with the police
trouble1560
heat1928
society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > find occasion for quarrelling > give provocation
to trail one's coat1877
to look for (or seek) trouble1901
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cxv Lest they should both offende the Mayor and bring them selues in trouble.
?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 175 This gentilman..who hathe byn late in troble in the tower of london.
1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 34 His wife very soon got into trouble, as it is technically termed in the colony; i.e. into the commission of some crime or misdemeanour, which issues in..flagellation, or imprisonment, or transportation, or death by the law.
1899 M. Johnston Old Dominion vii My friend has been in trouble..He will not make the worse conspirator for that.
1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ 134 We've got to build the belt gallery—and we'll have no end of a time doing it if the C. & S.C. is still looking for trouble.
1905 N.Y. Evening Post 29 Aug. 2 In the possible chance of rounding up all who might be seeking trouble, the police temporarily sequestered and searched 140 Chinamen.
1912 ‘Aurora’ Jock Scott, Midshipman xiv. 165 But if you are artful you don't often get ‘bowled out’, unless one of the ‘crushers’ has a ‘down’ on you, and is ‘looking for trouble’.
a1915 Mod. Take care what you say, or you'll get into trouble.
1922 E. O'Neill Anna Christie (1923) i. 25 I ain't looking for trouble.
1947 W. Motley Knock on any Door 152 Swollen out in their own importance they walked along West Madison looking for trouble.
b. Said of the condition of an unmarried woman with child.
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > of woman > condition of unmarried pregnant woman
trouble1891
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxi. 125 On no account do you say a word of your Bygone Trouble to him... Many a woman—some of the Highest in the Land—have had a Trouble in their time.
1891 Daily News 26 Jan. 7/2 She said she consented to come to London to be married to the prisoner as she believed she was in trouble.
c. U.S. colloquial or slang. Public festivity; interruption or disturbance of ordinary work.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > festivity
feast?c1225
feastinga1325
jubilee1526
festivity1583
gala1716
festiveness1777
party spirit1816
trouble1884
1884 C. T. Buckland Sketch Social Life India iii. 66 A day of rest comes in between each day of pleasure, or ‘trouble’ as the Yankees more rightly call it.
1897 C. M. Flandrau Harvard Episodes 313 That particular quarter..was not..the most decorous on Class Day. There is always more or less, what is technically known as ‘trouble’..on Class Day afternoon.
6. Mining. A dislocation in a stratum; a fault (usually small).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault
trouble1672
dislocation1695
trap1719
trapping1758
slip1789
step1789
fault1796
throw1796
jump1842
nigger1886
1672 G. Sinclair Hydrostaticks 267 That alteration..was not occasioned by any Gae, or trouble.
1672 G. Sinclair Hydrostaticks 276 Gae's, and Dykes..being the occasion of so much Trouble, in the working of Coal,..the Coal-hewers call them ordinarily by that name Trouble.
1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle II. 680 (note) Troubles [are] dikes of the smallest degree;..strata are generally altered by a trouble, from their regular site to a different position.
1859 R. Hunt Guide Mus. Pract. Geol. (ed. 2) 228 The effects of these movements will be visible in faults, troubles, dykes, throws, or heaves (as in different localities they are named).
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (See also trouble v. Compounds 1, Compounds 2.)
a. † trouble tare n. Obsolete
trouble-bearer n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > [noun] > capacity for moral effort or endurance > one who has
trouble-bearer1909
trouper1959
1909 Daily Chron. 14 Apr. 7/5 A laugh is the best trouble bearer.
trouble-cup n.
ΚΠ
1850 J. Struthers Poet. Wks. II. 244 Quaff'd it must be, life's trouble-cup.
trouble-maker n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [noun] > cause of > one causing
stroublerc1460
molester1569
discomfiter1807
terror1876
villain1895
sidewinder1906
trouble-maker1923
stirrer1963
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > persons full of strife > one who causes disturbance or trouble
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
shakebucklera1538
hellcat1603
trouble-feast1603
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
trouble-town1619
trouble-world1663
hellion1845
rowdy1859
bad actor1879
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
trouble-maker1923
performer1937
messer1942
shit-stirrer1961
1923 Time 28 May 1/2 (heading) Chief trouble maker.
1931 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 191 I took stock o' them, to spot the funny-men an' trouble-makers.
1955 ‘A. Gilbert’ Is she Dead Too? ii. 40 A snooper, or trouble-maker, that was Margaret Reeve.
1981 W. Ebersohn Divide Night xiii. 175 A more disciplined age where trouble-makers who went against the government would be dealt with firmly.
trouble-shirker n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [noun] > lazy person
caynard1303
sluggard1398
luskc1420
slugc1425
truantc1449
dawa1500
hummel?a1513
rook?a1513
wallydraigle?a1513
sloven1523
dronea1529
draw latch1538
slim1548
slouk1570
do-nothing1579
bumbiea1585
do-little1586
lazybones1593
luskin1593
do-naught1594
loiter-sack1594
bed-presser1598
lazy lizard1600
lazy-back1611
fainéant1618
nothing-do1623
trivant1624
slothful1648
lolpoop1661
tool1699
haggis1822
lazy-boots1832
lazy-legs1838
poke1847
never-sweat1851
slob1876
bum1882
haggis bag1892
lollop1896
trouble-shirker1908
warb1933
fuck-off1948
poop-butt1967
the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > skulking > skulker
skulkc1320
skulker1387
flincher1598
quitter1665
slink1824
turnback1843
sneakaway1900
trouble-shirker1908
1908 A. S. M. Hutchinson Once aboard Lugger v. vii. 268 These light-hearts, these trouble-shirkers.
ΚΠ
1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 95 Art not thou He that sow'st th' Isaacian Plain With Trouble-Tares?
b.
trouble-free adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > freedom from trouble, care, or sorrow > [adjective]
sorrowlessOE
carelessa1000
restful1340
clearc1374
unsada1450
undiseased?c1450
unoffendedc1450
undistroubled1466
frank1477
unvexed1485
quiet1535
secure1545
griefless1552
trouble-void1559
woeless1568
undistressed1582
tearless1603
cocksure1613
undejected1613
undisquieted1627
uncareful1635
serene1640
indisconsolatea1645
trouble-free1648
catastematic1656
thoughtless1659
incruciated1661
easy1692
undepressed1697
unsufferinga1732
ungloomed1737
solute1742
unanxious1742
undarkened1742
unsighinga1743
comfortable1770
unharassed1796
unworried1818
gloomless1820
ungroaning1821
unpestered1824
ungrieving1837
troubleless1838
unsaddened?c1840
untrespassed1854
unannoyed1865
unfretted1870
fretless1878
worriless1889
stress-free1898
unstressed1927
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. K7v A little Pipkin..Set on my Table, (Trouble-free).
trouble-giving adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious
angeeOE
swinkfuleOE
plightlyOE
teenfulOE
contrariousc1320
drefa1325
troublinga1325
despitousa1340
thornya1340
discomfortablec1350
troublablec1374
noyousa1382
noyfulc1384
diseasy1387
angrya1393
painful1395
hackinga1400
annoying?c1400
annoyousc1400
cumbrousc1400
teenc1400
annoyfulc1405
sputousc1420
diseasefula1425
molest?a1425
noying?a1425
noisomea1450
grievingc1450
tedious?1454
troublous1463
noisantc1475
displeasant1481
strouble1488
nuisant1494
noyanta1500
irksome1513
sturting1513
molestious1524
vexatious1534
cumbersome1535
uncommodious1541
spiteful1548
vexing?1548
incommodious1551
molestous1555
diseasing1558
grating1563
pestilent1565
sturtsome1570
molestuousa1572
troublesome1573
murrain1575
discommodable1579
galling1583
spiny1586
unsupportable1586
troubleful1588
plaguey1594
distressingc1595
molestful1596
molesting1598
vexful1598
fretful1603
briery1604
bemadding1608
mortifying1611
tiry1611
distressfula1616
irking1629
angersome1649
disobliging1652
discomforting1654
incomfortable1655
incommode1672
ruffling1680
unconvenient1683
pestifying1716
trying1718
offending1726
bothering1765
pesky1775
weary1785
sturty1788
unaccommodating1790
tiresome1798
werriting1808
bothersome1817
plaguesome1828
pestilential1833
fretsome1834
languorous1834
pesty1834
pestersome1843
nettlesome1845
miserable1850
niggling1854
distempering1855
be-maddeninga1861
nattery1873
nagging1883
pestiferous1890
trouble-giving1893
maddening1896
molestive1905
nuisancy1906
balls-aching?1912
nuisance1922
nattering1949
noodgy1969
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
cockish1996
1893 Westm. Gaz. 3 Feb. 1/3 A most trouble-giving class.
trouble-haunted adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > attended by or causing affliction > specifically of places
unhappy1591
trouble-haunted1815
1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vii. 119 All now was trouble-haunted ground.
trouble-proof adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or invulnerable
impassiblea1492
impatible?1541
proof1583
invulnerable1596
woundless1604
charmeda1616
unvulnerablea1616
inexposable1618
inobnoxious1659
impregnate1721
wreckless1822
uninjurable1846
immune1861
trouble-proof1878
1878 A. Paul Random Writings 202 We think ourselves giants and trouble-proof until it [illness] overtakes us.
trouble-saving adj.
trouble-tost adj.
ΚΠ
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxiii. 90 I lull a fancy trouble-tost . View more context for this quotation
trouble-void adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > freedom from trouble, care, or sorrow > [adjective]
sorrowlessOE
carelessa1000
restful1340
clearc1374
unsada1450
undiseased?c1450
unoffendedc1450
undistroubled1466
frank1477
unvexed1485
quiet1535
secure1545
griefless1552
trouble-void1559
woeless1568
undistressed1582
tearless1603
cocksure1613
undejected1613
undisquieted1627
uncareful1635
serene1640
indisconsolatea1645
trouble-free1648
catastematic1656
thoughtless1659
incruciated1661
easy1692
undepressed1697
unsufferinga1732
ungloomed1737
solute1742
unanxious1742
undarkened1742
unsighinga1743
comfortable1770
unharassed1796
unworried1818
gloomless1820
ungroaning1821
unpestered1824
ungrieving1837
troubleless1838
unsaddened?c1840
untrespassed1854
unannoyed1865
unfretted1870
fretless1878
worriless1889
stress-free1898
unstressed1927
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Mortimer xiv Seldome ioye continueth trouble voyde.
c.
trouble-making adj. and n.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > making trouble
helling around1899
trouble-making1920
aggro1969
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [adjective] > of disposition
troublousc1485
troublesome1552
unpacifica1750
dispeaceful1892
trouble-making1920
1920 S. Lewis Main St. xvi. 202 I certainly hope you don't class yourself with a lot of trouble-making labor-leaders!
a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 77 Manny wouldn't allow it, for fear—as he put it—that the questions raised would be used for trouble-making.
C2.
trouble-hunter n. spec. = trouble-shooter n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > [noun] > line > one who maintains or works on
lineman1858
linesman1883
trouble-shooter1905
grunt1908
trouble-hunter1910
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > engineer > [noun] > trouble-shooter
trouble man1889
trouble-shooter1905
trouble-hunter1910
1910 C. E. Mulford Hopalong Cassidy xxviii. 184 As soon as we lick this aggregation of trouble-hunters, what's left will ride hell~bent for that valley.
1924 New Eng. Telephone Topics XVIII. 288 Repairmen, the ‘trouble hunters’, are at work constantly.
trouble hunting n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > engineering > [noun] > specific procedures
trouble hunting1882
trouble-shooting1918
batch processing1948
double dip1971
1882 T. D. Lockwood Pract. Information for Telephonists 135 Every movement made for an accurate preliminary test frequently saves an hour of happy-go-lucky trouble hunting.
trouble lamp n. a portable lamp (esp. one carried on a motor vehicle), by the light of which roadside repairs, etc., can be done.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > portable emergency light
trouble lamp1916
trouble light1952
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 July 12/4 If a car is not equipped with an extension trouble lamp, it is well to provide among the accessories a pocket flash lamp.
1927 W. Faulkner Sartoris iii. 196 He was doing something to the engine of it [sc. a car] while the house-yard-stable-boy held a patent trouble-lamp.
trouble light n. North American = trouble lamp n.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > portable emergency light
trouble lamp1916
trouble light1952
1952 Sun (Baltimore) 5 Jan. (B ed.) 7/4 Their headlights went out... A door slammed shut and cut the wire on the trouble light.
1979 Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. h3/1 He just happened to have a siphon hose; also a trouble light with a cord that seemed long enough to reach back to his home in Mexico City.
trouble man n. U.S. = trouble-shooter n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > engineer > [noun] > trouble-shooter
trouble man1889
trouble-shooter1905
trouble-hunter1910
1889 Cassell's Family Mag. June 410/1 A special band of what the Americans call ‘Trouble-men’, who are prepared to attend at once to sudden calls for assistance.
1953 Herald (Belle Glade, Florida) 13 Feb. 1/1 According to Florida Power & Light district manager C. A. Chase, FPL's ‘Troubleman’ J. J. McCarley located the difficulty, and repair crews worked until 2 am Wednesday repairing broken circuits and restoring service.
trouble spot n. a place where difficulties frequently occur; a scene of (impending) conflict.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > instance or cause of > dangerous place
the lion's moutha1225
unsanctuary?1617
Indian country1625
in the lion's paws1629
witch's cauldron1816
hot spot1837
no man's land1926
red zone1942
trouble spot1956
1956 M. E. W. Goss in R. K. Merton Student-Physician iv. 258 The regular duties..included the unwritten obligation to assist in..assessing the ‘trouble-spots’ and suggesting possible solutions.
1963 Listener 7 Feb. 260/2 Sir David Eccles wants £200,000,000 a year pumped into the trouble-spots [sc. areas of heavy unemployment].
1981 T. Barling Bikini Red North ii. 41 It should be quiet enough, being so far from Montmartre and the other trouble spots.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious
angeeOE
swinkfuleOE
plightlyOE
teenfulOE
contrariousc1320
drefa1325
troublinga1325
despitousa1340
thornya1340
discomfortablec1350
troublablec1374
noyousa1382
noyfulc1384
diseasy1387
angrya1393
painful1395
hackinga1400
annoying?c1400
annoyousc1400
cumbrousc1400
teenc1400
annoyfulc1405
sputousc1420
diseasefula1425
molest?a1425
noying?a1425
noisomea1450
grievingc1450
tedious?1454
troublous1463
noisantc1475
displeasant1481
strouble1488
nuisant1494
noyanta1500
irksome1513
sturting1513
molestious1524
vexatious1534
cumbersome1535
uncommodious1541
spiteful1548
vexing?1548
incommodious1551
molestous1555
diseasing1558
grating1563
pestilent1565
sturtsome1570
molestuousa1572
troublesome1573
murrain1575
discommodable1579
galling1583
spiny1586
unsupportable1586
troubleful1588
plaguey1594
distressingc1595
molestful1596
molesting1598
vexful1598
fretful1603
briery1604
bemadding1608
mortifying1611
tiry1611
distressfula1616
irking1629
angersome1649
disobliging1652
discomforting1654
incomfortable1655
incommode1672
ruffling1680
unconvenient1683
pestifying1716
trying1718
offending1726
bothering1765
pesky1775
weary1785
sturty1788
unaccommodating1790
tiresome1798
werriting1808
bothersome1817
plaguesome1828
pestilential1833
fretsome1834
languorous1834
pesty1834
pestersome1843
nettlesome1845
miserable1850
niggling1854
distempering1855
be-maddeninga1861
nattery1873
nagging1883
pestiferous1890
trouble-giving1893
maddening1896
molestive1905
nuisancy1906
balls-aching?1912
nuisance1922
nattering1949
noodgy1969
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
cockish1996
1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 71 To what end..haue they breathed out so loude, boisterous, and troublefull blasts?
ˈtroubleless adj. free from trouble.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > freedom from trouble, care, or sorrow > [adjective]
sorrowlessOE
carelessa1000
restful1340
clearc1374
unsada1450
undiseased?c1450
unoffendedc1450
undistroubled1466
frank1477
unvexed1485
quiet1535
secure1545
griefless1552
trouble-void1559
woeless1568
undistressed1582
tearless1603
cocksure1613
undejected1613
undisquieted1627
uncareful1635
serene1640
indisconsolatea1645
trouble-free1648
catastematic1656
thoughtless1659
incruciated1661
easy1692
undepressed1697
unsufferinga1732
ungloomed1737
solute1742
unanxious1742
undarkened1742
unsighinga1743
comfortable1770
unharassed1796
unworried1818
gloomless1820
ungroaning1821
unpestered1824
ungrieving1837
troubleless1838
unsaddened?c1840
untrespassed1854
unannoyed1865
unfretted1870
fretless1878
worriless1889
stress-free1898
unstressed1927
1838 M. Howitt Birds & Flowers ii In a troubleless delight!
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† troubleadj.
Obsolete.
1. Of water, wine, etc., Troubled, turbid, muddy, thick; of air, etc., Misty, murky, cloudy, not clear; in quot. c14001, dim, dusky.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > [adjective] > qualities of liquid > cloudy or opaque
worya1225
troublea1327
troublyc1380
troubleda1425
the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > opacity > [adjective]
troublea1327
nebulous?a1425
cloudy1587
shady1605
untransparent1605
untransparablea1618
opacous1625
opaque1631
opacious1643
non-transparent1653
adiaphanous1658
undiaphanous1666
opacular1761
intransparent1842
opacious1953
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective]
dima1000
darkOE
troublea1327
palec1385
dullc1430
unclearc1440
unbright1534
cloudy1556
unlight1570
muddy1600
wan1601
opacous1616
filmy1642
illuminous1656
crepuscular1668
dumb1720
rayless1754
opaque1794
veilya1802
turbid1811
unlucent1819
ineffulgent1824
blear1830
unrefulgent1856
subluminous1860
subaqueous1875
shineless1882
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > light of moon > [adjective] > dim (of moon)
troublea1327
the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid
troublyc1380
greata1398
murkc1480
mistyc1485
foggyc1487
troublea1500
grossa1592
fat1598
filthya1616
thick1626
murky1667
turbid1705
solid1807
a1327 On Dreams in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 263 Water thikke ant trouble.
c1400 Rom. Rose 7116 As moche as..The sunne sourmounteth the mone, That troubler is, and chaungeth sone.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) viii. 108 Þere is a welle that iiij. sithes in the ȝeer chaungeth his colour: somtyme grene, somtyme reed, somtyme cleer, & somtyme trouble [Roxb. trublee].
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xiv. 157 The gode dyamandes..ben of trouble colour.
1482 J. Warkworth Chron. (Camden) 24 Whenne it betokenethe battayle it rennys foule and trouble watere [cf. quot. 1605 at troubly adj. 1].
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xv. 236 Thei loked towarde lanneriur, and saugh the eyr trouble, and thikke of duste.
2. Disturbed, distressed, confused; marked by disturbance or confusion; troublous, restless, unquiet.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective]
troublec1374
misorderlya1568
unorderly1578
luxate1597
incomposed1608
methodless1609
tumultuary1609
unordered1621
disorderly1632
higgledy-piggledy1676
rantum-scantum1695
throughother1720
rough and tumble1818
ramshackle1820
skimble-skamble1826
ahoo1828
disordinate1840
disorganic1841
ramshackly1883
rantum-scootum1885
tumultuarious1895
ragtime1917
inchoate1922
higgledya1953
shambolic1970
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > [adjective]
troubleda1325
troublyc1340
troublec1374
worried1559
betoiled1622
aerumnous1658
fidgety1736
fretful1737
fretted1756
tanglesome1823
awful1865
hincty1929
toey1930
to worry (oneself), be worried, sick1952
noodgy1969
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iv. pr. iv. 107 Alle thingys semen to be confus and trowble [Add. MS. trouble] to vs men.
c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 409 With stierne face and with ful trouble cheere.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xvii. 184 Þe anguishe þat so harde presseth troubel herte.
3. Turbulent, tempestuous, stormy, violent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [adjective] > stormy
reigheOE
stormya1200
wilda1250
troublec1374
rougha1400
stormishc1430
rude?a1439
boistous1470
troublous1482
wair?a1500
tempestuous1509
blusterous1548
rugged1549
stormful1558
troublesome1560
turbulent1573
ruggy1577
rufflered1582
oragious?1590
boisterous?1594
broily1594
unruly1594
procellousa1629
gurly1718
coarse1774
ugly1844
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > agitated
wilda1250
unpeaceablea1398
troubly1398
troubleda1425
trouble1509
working1558
disquiet1587
fretful1616
ruffled1640
fretteda1854
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) i. met. vii. 19 The trowble [Add. MS. trouble] wynde þat hyht Auster.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 182 Trubbill weddyr makis schippis to droun.
1509 Payne Evyll Marr. 95 Like perilous Caribeis of the trouble see.
Derivatives
ˈtroubleness n. troubledness, turbidity.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun]
sorec888
teeneOE
sorrowOE
workOE
wrakeOE
careOE
gramec1000
harmOE
howc1000
trayOE
woweOE
angec1175
derfnessc1175
sytec1175
unwinc1175
wosithc1200
ail?c1225
barrat?c1225
derf?c1225
grief?c1225
misease?c1225
misliking?c1225
ofthinkingc1225
passion?c1225
troublec1230
pinec1275
distress1297
grievancea1300
penancea1300
cumbermentc1300
languorc1300
cumbering1303
were1303
angera1325
strifea1325
sweama1325
woea1325
painc1330
tribulationc1330
illa1340
threst1340
constraintc1374
troublenessc1380
afflictiona1382
bruisinga1382
miseasetya1382
pressurec1384
exercisec1386
miscomfortc1390
mislikea1400
smarta1400
thronga1400
balec1400
painfulnessc1400
troublancec1400
smartness?c1425
painliness1435
perplexity?a1439
penalty?1462
calamity1490
penality1496
cumber?a1513
sussy1513
tribule1513
afflict?1529
vexation of spirit1535
troublesomeness1561
hoe1567
grievedness1571
tribulance1575
languishment1576
thrall1578
tine1590
languorment1593
aggrievedness1594
obturbation1623
afflictedness1646
erumny1657
pathos1684
shock1705
dree1791
vex1815
wrungnessa1875
dukkha1886
thinkache1892
sufferation1976
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > cloudiness
troublenessc1380
cloudiness1594
overcast1637
nimbosity1721
nubilation1874
the world > matter > gas > air > [noun] > air in any specific place or at specific time > turbidity of air
troublenessc1380
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > bad weather > [noun] > stormy weather > storminess
troublenessc1380
anger1566
storminess1587
tempestuousness1648
troublesomeness1648
stormfulness1834
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 333 Þe wynd of Goddis lawe shulde be cleer, ffor turblenes in þis wynde mut nedis turble mennis lif.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1417 Of hertis trobilnes I had nevir knowlech, but of al gladnes.
1482 Monk of Evesham 73 They sofryd greuys and varyante trowbulnes of the eyre.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
troublev.
/ˈtrʌbl/, U.S. /ˈtrəb(ə)l/ I. Senses relating to physical disturbance.
1. † b. intransitive for passive. Of water, to grow turbid; of the sun or sky, to grow dark, cloudy, or stormy; of a storm, to rage. Also figurative. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To disturb, agitate, ruffle (water, air, etc.); esp. to stir up (water) so as to make it thick or muddy; to make (wine) thick by stirring up the lees; to make turbid, dim, or cloudy. Now rare or archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > gas > air > [verb (transitive)] > make turbid
trouble1340
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > specific air or water
trouble1340
(to be, set) a walm?1605
uncalm1650
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > dim
dima1300
blemish1440
troublea1500
misten1599
perstringe1603
blear1605
tara1612
disgregatea1631
purblind1644
obfuscate1656
blast1757
blur1791
bedim1811
the world > matter > liquid > [verb (transitive)] > stir up or render turbid
stirc1000
blend1384
trouble1579
puddle1593
mud1594
muddy1617
drummle1635
blunder1655
muddy1669
muddle1676
inturbidate1684
to shake up1753
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4319 He sal trobel þe se when he wille, And pees it and make it be stille.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xxxii. 2 Thou..trublist to gidre watris with thi feet.
a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 230 Tho that haue eyen discolourid and trowbelid.
a1525 Crying ane Playe 36 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 150 The sky is ranyd quhen he wald scowle And trublit all þe aire.
1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) John v. 4 For an angell went doune..and troubled the water.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 39v The fish Sepia can trouble the water.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 147 Like a fountaine troubled, Muddie, ill seeming, thicke. View more context for this quotation
1660 J. Dryden Astræa Redux 13 As those Lees that trouble it, refine The agitated Soul of Generous Wine.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 231 In the application of paint,..to avoid unnecessarily mixing, or, as it is called, ‘troubling’, ‘saddening’, or ‘tormenting’ the tints.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 170 Its [the sea's] surface is ordinarily more or less troubled with waves.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > [verb (intransitive)] > grow turbid
trouble1390
nebulate1753
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > become cloudy or overcast [verb (intransitive)]
domle1340
trouble1390
drovea1400
overcastc1475
cloud1555
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis viii. 3009* But hou so that it trowble in their [= the air], The Sonne is evere briht and feir.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) v. 52 Put a drope of bawme in clere water..& stere it wel;..And ȝif þat the bawme be fyn..the water schall neuere trouble.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7619 A thondir with thicke Rayn thrublit in þe skewes.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 885 The British affayres..began again now to flow out and to trouble.
2. transitive. To disturb, derange; to interfere with, interrupt; to hinder, mar. Obsolete or archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > throw into commotion or disorder [verb (transitive)]
stirc950
disturbc1290
troublec1330
turmoil1530
to set cock on the hoopa1549
garboil1572
blend1594
irrequiate1598
storm1609
uproara1616
embroil1619
dissettle1631
unsettle1651
hurly-burly1678
unhinge1679
disrest1726
commote1852
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Petyt MS.) (Rolls) 4764 Þe feste was turbled & mirth aweye.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) viii. l. 1462 Ȝour fredom we sall trowbill na ma.
1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 11v By her babling she troubled the hole assemblie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) v. vi. 127 Trouble not the peace. View more context for this quotation
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 195 Lucius..troubled the affayre by his interposing.
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 4 July 1/2 Such who..might..trouble and pervert the Course of Justice.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song (rev. ed.) vi, in Poems (new ed.) I. 181 And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy.
II. Senses relating to mental disturbance, and related uses.
3. β. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 328 And þerfore Petre biddiþ Cristen men, Be not turblid bi þer manas.† b. intransitive for passive. To be disturbed or agitated; to be in or get into an unsettled state. Obsolete. rare.
a. To put into a state of (mental) agitation or disquiet; to disturb, distress, grieve, perplex.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > cause mental pain or suffering to [verb (transitive)]
heavyc897
pineeOE
aileOE
sorryeOE
traya1000
sorrowOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
angerc1175
smarta1200
to work, bake, brew balec1200
derve?c1225
grieve?c1225
sitc1225
sweam?c1225
gnawc1230
sughc1230
troublec1230
aggrievea1325
to think sweama1325
unframea1325
anguish1340
teen1340
sowa1352
distrainc1374
to-troublea1382
strain1382
unglad1390
afflicta1393
paina1393
distressa1400
hita1400
sorea1400
assayc1400
remordc1400
temptc1400
to sit (or set) one sorec1420
overthrow?a1425
visit1424
labour1437
passionc1470
arraya1500
constraina1500
misgrievea1500
attempt1525
exagitate1532
to wring to the worse1542
toil1549
lament1580
adolorate1598
rankle1659
try1702
to pass over ——1790
upset1805
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
to put (a person) through it1855
bludgeon1888
to get to ——1904
to put through the hoop(s)1919
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > upset or perturb [verb (transitive)]
to-wendc893
mingeOE
dreveOE
angerc1175
sturb?c1225
worec1225
troublec1230
sturble1303
disturbc1305
movea1325
disturblec1330
drubblea1340
drovec1350
distroublec1369
tempestc1374
outsturba1382
unresta1382
stroublec1384
unquietc1384
conturb1393
mismaya1400
unquemea1400
uneasec1400
discomfita1425
smite?a1425
perturbc1425
pertrouble?1435
inquiet1486
toss1526
alter1529
disquiet1530
turmoil1530
perturbate1533
broil1548
mis-set?1553
shake1567
parbruilyiec1586
agitate1587
roil1590
transpose1594
discompose1603
harrow1609
hurry1611
obturb1623
shog1636
untune1638
alarm1649
disorder1655
begruntlea1670
pother1692
disconcert1695
ruffle1701
tempestuate1702
rough1777
caddle1781
to put out1796
upset1805
discomfort1806
start1821
faze1830
bother1832
to put aback1833
to put about1843
raft1844
queer1845
rattle1865
to turn over1865
untranquillize1874
hack1881
rock1881
to shake up1884
to put off1909
to go (also pass) through a phase1913
to weird out1970
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 138 Naw trubli þin heorte.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 104 Wyþ-oute him to trobli, wyþ~oute him to chongi, wyþ-oute him remue ine none manere.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xii. 27 Now my soule is troublid.
1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 173 His Spirite is not by rancoure y-trowbelid.
c1440 Generydes 54 Sore trobelyd in his mynde.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xiv. f. cxlijv Lett nott youre hertes be trubled.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 14 Let thys dyversyte of sectys..nothyng trowbul us at al.
1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 9 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) Orators who do break their brains to utter good things, and never trouble their heads in the least to do them.
1715 D. Defoe Family Instructor I. i. iii. 67 My dear..I believe something troubles thee.
1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xxiii. 417 I was troubled in my own mind.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 133 No such perplexity could ever trouble a modern metaphysician.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > be in commotion or disorder [verb (intransitive)]
seethe1609
trouble1619
ferment1671
welter1837
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iv. iii. 439 In the change of the gouernment of the Romans,..the world troubled throughout, and the whole body of the empire was turmoiled with all sorts of perils.
4. absolute.c1570 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour (Chetham Soc.) Introd. 7 Stormes that troubleth sore.1611 Bible (King James) Job iii. 17 There the wicked cease from troubling . View more context for this quotation
a. transitive. To do harm or hurt to; to injure; to molest, oppress.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict
overharryeOE
aileOE
swencheOE
besetOE
traya1000
teenOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
derve?c1225
grieve1297
harrya1300
noyc1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
wrath14..
aggrievea1325
annoya1325
tribula1325
to hold wakenc1330
anguish1340
distrainc1374
wrap1380
strain1382
ermec1386
afflicta1393
cumbera1400
assayc1400
distressc1400
temptc1400
encumber1413
labour1437
infortune?a1439
stressa1450
trouble1489
arraya1500
constraina1500
attempt1525
misease1530
exercise1531
to hold or keep waking1533
try1539
to wring to the worse1542
pinch1548
affligec1550
trounce1551
oppress1555
inflict1566
overharl1570
strait1579
to make a martyr of1599
straiten1611
tribulatea1637
to put through the hoop(s)1919
snooter1923
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)]
tawc893
ermec897
swencheOE
besetOE
bestandc1000
teenOE
baitc1175
grieve?c1225
war?c1225
noyc1300
pursuec1300
travailc1300
to work (also do) annoyc1300
tribula1325
worka1325
to hold wakenc1330
chase1340
twistc1374
wrap1380
cumbera1400
harrya1400
vexc1410
encumber1413
inquiet1413
molest?a1425
course1466
persecutec1475
trouble1489
sturt1513
hare1523
hag1525
hale1530
exercise1531
to grate on or upon1532
to hold or keep waking1533
infest1533
scourge1540
molestate1543
pinch1548
trounce1551
to shake upa1556
tire1558
moila1560
pester1566
importune1578
hunt1583
moider1587
bebait1589
commacerate1596
bepester1600
ferret1600
harsell1603
hurry1611
gall1614
betoil1622
weary1633
tribulatea1637
harass1656
dun1659
overharry1665
worry1671
haul1678
to plague the life out of1746
badger1782
hatchel1800
worry1811
bedevil1823
devil1823
victimize1830
frab1848
mither1848
to pester the life out of1848
haik1855
beplague1870
chevy1872
obsede1876
to get on ——1880
to load up with1880
tail-twist1898
hassle1901
heckle1920
snooter1923
hassle1945
to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946
to bust (a person's) chops1953
noodge1960
monster1967
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 479 And swa trowblyt the folk saw he, That he tharoff had gret pitte.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvi. f. xxxvijv Why trouble ye the woman?
1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 107 The fleand dartis,..To trubill the, sall haif na mycht.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 138 For sa troublit with stormis was I neuer stad.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 209 God looking forth will trouble all his Host And craze thir Chariot wheels. View more context for this quotation
1691 in Further Evid. Nairne Peerage (1874) 143 in Sessional Papers House of Lords (H.L. D) XII. 199 From all citing conveeinng [i.e. conveening] judging fyning or otherwayes molesting and troubling the saids heritors tennents possessors and occupiers.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 246 Swans..Whom, swooping from the region of the skies, Jove's bird was troubling.
1912 Times 19 Oct. 5/4 No individual..shall be proceeded against or troubled in his person or property.
b. Of disease or ailment: to cause bodily derangement, pain, or inconvenience to; to afflict; sometimes in weakened sense, to affect. (Often in passive with with; also figurative)
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > affect or afflict
aileOE
takec1300
visitc1340
troublec1400
vex?c1425
surprise1485
vizy1488
attaintc1534
heart-burn?1537
molest1559
gar1614
possess1617
misaffect1618
corrept1657
invalid1803
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > suffer pain [verb (transitive)] > cause pain
aileOE
grieve?c1225
girdc1275
painc1375
putc1390
sorea1400
troublec1400
anguisha1425
vex?c1425
urn1488
suffera1500
exagitate1532
fire1602
trachle1889
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 72 Þy stomak shal fille hym with euyl humours.., and þat shall trobbyl þy brayn with euyll fumosyte.
c1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 80 Wyn þat ys takyn abundanly..lettys þe vnderstondynge,..troblys þe brayn.
?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 94 I..Am trublit now with gret seiknes.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxxiiv His pange so sore trobeled him that he lay as though al his vitall sprites had bene from him departed.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 419 Being troubled with a raging tooth, I could not sleep. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. iii. 3 This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me. View more context for this quotation
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 84 He said, That Mercy was a pretty Lass; but troubled with ill Conditions. View more context for this quotation
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 153. ⁋19 All whom I intreat to sing are troubled with colds.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 842 For many years he has had an ulcer..which troubles him.
5.
a. To distress with something disagreeable and unwelcome; to vex, annoy; to tease, plague, worry, pester, bother. †Also intransitive with with (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex
gremec893
dretchc900
awhenec1000
teenOE
fretc1290
annoyc1300
atrayc1320
encumberc1330
diseasec1340
grindc1350
distemperc1386
offenda1387
arra1400
avexa1400
derea1400
miscomforta1400
angerc1400
engrievec1400
vex1418
molesta1425
entrouble?1435
destroublea1450
poina1450
rubc1450
to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450
disprofit1483
agrea1492
trouble1515
grig1553
mis-set?1553
nip?1553
grate1555
gripe1559
spitec1563
fike?1572
gall1573
corsie1574
corrosive1581
touch1581
disaccommodate1586
macerate1588
perplex1590
thorn1592
exulcerate1593
plague1595
incommode1598
affret1600
brier1601
to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603
discommodate1606
incommodate1611
to grate on or upon1631
disincommodate1635
shog1636
ulcerate1647
incommodiate1650
to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653
discommodiate1654
discommode1657
ruffle1659
regrate1661
disoblige1668
torment1718
pesta1729
chagrin1734
pingle1740
bothera1745
potter1747
wherrit1762
to tweak the nose of1784
to play up1803
tout1808
rasp1810
outrage1818
worrit1818
werrit1825
buggerlug1850
taigle1865
get1867
to give a person the pip1881
to get across ——1888
nark1888
eat1893
to twist the tail1895
dudgeon1906
to tweak the tail of1909
sore1929
to put up1930
wouldn't it rip you!1941
sheg1943
to dick around1944
cheese1946
to pee off1946
to honk off1970
to fuck off1973
to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977
to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983
to wind up1984
to dick about1996
to-teen-
1515 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 213 If they may find any hole or colur therin, they will troble with me for the same.
1538 T. Audley in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 247 Thus I trobill you with my sutes.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxiijv [He] besecheth him and his adherentes to trouble the church no more.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) ii. i. 1 Take the Boy to you: he so troubles me, 'Tis past enduring. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iii. i. 63 Your towne is troubled with vnruly boies. View more context for this quotation
1794 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) I. 440 I made..thirteen scaling ladders,..for I think the Troops will be troubled in getting up the wall, 'because the earth is too loose.
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate ii ‘He would trouble me no more.’ ‘Does he really trouble you, Valerie?’ ‘Yes, really. I am frightened and nervous when I go out.’
b. In lighter sense: to put to inconvenience, incommode; often used hyperbolically by way of courtesy: ‘to give occasion of labour to: a word of civility or slight regard’ (Johnson). Usually const. with: also with infinitive (esp. in a formula of polite or quasi-polite request), to give (one) the trouble to do something (cf. senses 5c, 5d).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inconvenience > affect with inconvenience [verb (transitive)]
trouble1516
misease1530
incommodatea1575
inconveniencea1656
run1697
incommode1702
disannul1794
disconvenience1821
to put about1825
to put out1851
to jerk around1877
to bugger about1921
to dick around1944
to fuck around1955
to bugger around1961
to screw around1967
to fuck about1975
to cock around1990
to dick about1996
to cock about2009
1516 Queen Margaret of Scotl. in M. A. E. Wood Lett. Royal & Illustrious Ladies (1846) I. 221 I pray you send me word, for I will trouble you no more with my sending.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iii. 12 It seemeth to mee..vnreasonable..that the Grammar Schooles should bee troubled with teaching A.B.C.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. 14 He will not be troubled with small Fractions..which breedeth no great error.
1708 J. Arbuthnot Let. Oct. in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) I. 180 I shall trouble you to give my services to my friends at Oxford.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 142. ⁋11 I will not trouble you with more Letters at this time.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 294 Let me trouble you with one more question.
1915 N.E.D. at Trouble Mod. May I trouble you to pass the mustard? I'll trouble you to wipe your feet the next time you come into the house.
c. With for: To pester with requests, ask importunately, importune; hence (usually) in lighter use, in a formula of polite request: to give (one) the trouble of passing or handing something.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > request > request or ask for [verb (transitive)] > urge or importune > for something
trouble1516
importune1567
1516 Queen Margaret in M. A. E. Wood Lett. Royal & Illustrious Ladies (1846) I. 221 I shall trouble you no more for no money.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Trouble... 9. (In low language.) To sue for a debt.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) vi. 65 The new pupil; who ‘troubled’ Mr. Pecksniff for the loaf.
1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 30 I'll trouble you, Shafton, for another of those good cigars.
d. reflexive. To take the trouble, take pains, exert oneself (to do something).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself [verb (reflexive)] > take trouble
apainc1315
painc1330
anpainc1380
enpaync1380
pinec1400
trouble?a1513
becumber1550
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 264 Trubill nevir thy self,..Vthiris to reiwll that will not rewlit be.
1621 T. W. tr. S. Goulart Wise Vieillard 49 Pilots.., without much troubling themselues, or stirring from their places, sit quietly at the sterne, and holding the Rudder,..doe cond and carry their Ships..to their vnlading port.
1845 R. Monckton Milnes in Life (1891) I. viii. 357 He had never troubled himself..to understand the question.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 581 The officer never troubles himself to ascertain whether the arms are in good order.
e. intransitive for reflexive = preceding sense. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)]
tillc897
stightlea1375
stretcha1375
wrestlea1382
to put it forthc1390
to put one's hand(s) to (also unto)a1398
paina1400
takea1400
to do one's busy pain (also care, cure, diligence)?a1430
to make great force?c1450
makec1485
to stir one's stumpsa1500
to bestir one's stumps1549
to make work1574
put1596
bestira1616
operate1650
to lay out1659
to be at pains1709
exerta1749
tew1787
maul1821
to take (the) trouble1830
to pull outc1835
bother1840
trouble1880
to buck up1890
hump1897
to go somea1911
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xl. 206 He would have allowed reform to go its way for him, and never troubled.
1884 W. C. Smith Kildrostan 50 Do not trouble to bring back the boat.
Compounds
The verb-stem in combination, prefixed to nouns, forming nouns with sense ‘one who or that which troubles, disturbs, or mars the peace or enjoyment of’; mostly rare or Obsolete. C1.
trouble-cup n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful mischievousness > harmfully mischievous person > [noun]
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
boutefeu?1584
mischief1586
breed-bate1593
trouble-feast1603
flight-head1605
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
fling-brand1616
trouble-town1619
blow-coal1622
trouble-world1663
mischief-maker1675
fire-sprit1847
firebug1869
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
mixer1938
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > persons full of strife > one who causes disturbance or trouble
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
shakebucklera1538
hellcat1603
trouble-feast1603
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
trouble-town1619
trouble-world1663
hellion1845
rowdy1859
bad actor1879
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
trouble-maker1923
performer1937
messer1942
shit-stirrer1961
a1610 J. Healey tr. Theophrastus Characters (1636) 70 Then he railes on the Fidler as a trouble-cup.
trouble-feast n. (also attributive)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful mischievousness > harmfully mischievous person > [noun]
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
boutefeu?1584
mischief1586
breed-bate1593
trouble-feast1603
flight-head1605
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
fling-brand1616
trouble-town1619
blow-coal1622
trouble-world1663
mischief-maker1675
fire-sprit1847
firebug1869
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
mixer1938
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > persons full of strife > one who causes disturbance or trouble
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
shakebucklera1538
hellcat1603
trouble-feast1603
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
trouble-town1619
trouble-world1663
hellion1845
rowdy1859
bad actor1879
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
trouble-maker1923
performer1937
messer1942
shit-stirrer1961
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. ix. 596 This trouble-feast reason.
?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xiv. 56 A little trouble-feast, a tedious and importune parasite.
1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 226 The old Fryer was a Turba Festa, a meer Trouble-Feast to talk so at random.
trouble-house n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful mischievousness > harmfully mischievous person > [noun]
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
boutefeu?1584
mischief1586
breed-bate1593
trouble-feast1603
flight-head1605
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
fling-brand1616
trouble-town1619
blow-coal1622
trouble-world1663
mischief-maker1675
fire-sprit1847
firebug1869
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
mixer1938
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > persons full of strife > one who causes disturbance or trouble
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
shakebucklera1538
hellcat1603
trouble-feast1603
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
trouble-town1619
trouble-world1663
hellion1845
rowdy1859
bad actor1879
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
trouble-maker1923
performer1937
messer1942
shit-stirrer1961
1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 100 This unthrifty trouble-house.
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxiv. 30) 276 Many such trouble-houses and trouble-towns there are abroad.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 319 Branding his sons with the black name of trouble-houses, and trouble-towns.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. v. 65 'Tis well to say ‘Friend’ outwardly, though you say ‘Troublehouse’ within.
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trouble-mirth n.
trouble-rest n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful mischievousness > harmfully mischievous person > [noun]
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
boutefeu?1584
mischief1586
breed-bate1593
trouble-feast1603
flight-head1605
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
fling-brand1616
trouble-town1619
blow-coal1622
trouble-world1663
mischief-maker1675
fire-sprit1847
firebug1869
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
mixer1938
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > persons full of strife > one who causes disturbance or trouble
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
shakebucklera1538
hellcat1603
trouble-feast1603
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
trouble-town1619
trouble-world1663
hellion1845
rowdy1859
bad actor1879
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
trouble-maker1923
performer1937
messer1942
shit-stirrer1961
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 338 Th' other Furie..Foule, trouble-rest.
trouble-state n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful mischievousness > harmfully mischievous person > [noun]
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
boutefeu?1584
mischief1586
breed-bate1593
trouble-feast1603
flight-head1605
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
fling-brand1616
trouble-town1619
blow-coal1622
trouble-world1663
mischief-maker1675
fire-sprit1847
firebug1869
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
mixer1938
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > persons full of strife > one who causes disturbance or trouble
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
shakebucklera1538
hellcat1603
trouble-feast1603
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
trouble-town1619
trouble-world1663
hellion1845
rowdy1859
bad actor1879
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
trouble-maker1923
performer1937
messer1942
shit-stirrer1961
1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) iv. xxiv. 93 Those faire bayts these Trouble-States still vse.
trouble-tomb n.
ΚΠ
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. July 35/1 They covered him [sc. Shakespeare's effigy] over with a coat of white paint... I think I see them..these sapient trouble-tombs.
trouble-town n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful mischievousness > harmfully mischievous person > [noun]
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
boutefeu?1584
mischief1586
breed-bate1593
trouble-feast1603
flight-head1605
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
fling-brand1616
trouble-town1619
blow-coal1622
trouble-world1663
mischief-maker1675
fire-sprit1847
firebug1869
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
mixer1938
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > persons full of strife > one who causes disturbance or trouble
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
shakebucklera1538
hellcat1603
trouble-feast1603
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
trouble-town1619
trouble-world1663
hellion1845
rowdy1859
bad actor1879
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
trouble-maker1923
performer1937
messer1942
shit-stirrer1961
1619 J. Dyke Counterpoison 23 What breedeth these trouble-townes but couetousnesse?
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxiv. 30) 276 Many such trouble-houses and trouble-towns there are abroad.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 319 Branding his sons with the black name of trouble-houses, and trouble-towns.
trouble-world n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harmful mischievousness > harmfully mischievous person > [noun]
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
boutefeu?1584
mischief1586
breed-bate1593
trouble-feast1603
flight-head1605
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
fling-brand1616
trouble-town1619
blow-coal1622
trouble-world1663
mischief-maker1675
fire-sprit1847
firebug1869
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
mixer1938
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] > persons full of strife > one who causes disturbance or trouble
disturberc1290
troublera1382
distroublerc1440
disturblerc1440
shakebucklera1538
hellcat1603
trouble-feast1603
trouble-rest1605
trouble-house1608
trouble-cupa1610
trouble-state1609
seek-trouble1611
trouble-town1619
trouble-world1663
hellion1845
rowdy1859
bad actor1879
ratbag1890
disturbant1894
trouble-maker1923
performer1937
messer1942
shit-stirrer1961
1663 J. Heath Flagellum Pref. Trouble-worlds.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 101 John Lilbourne [was] naturally a great trouble-world.
C2. † trouble-belly n. Obsolete rare gutwort, Globularia Alypum.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > gutwort
gutwort1597
trouble-belly1668
Montpellier turpeth1860
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 112 Guttwort, Trouble-belly.
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