Definition of "botheration"

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

1891, “A Live Issue”, in Puck, page 5

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

1918, Katherine Mansfield, "Prelude" in Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2002, p. 120

"Blast and botheration!" exclaimed Digory. "What's gone wrong now? [...]"

1955, C. S. Lewis, chapter 3, in The Magician's Nephew, Collins, published 1998

I write in great haste & with a head full of botheration about various projected works [...]

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

1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 21, in A Tale of Two Cities‎

At home he read too many papers. He was better off without his daily dose of world botheration, sham happenings, without newspaper phrases.

1982, Saul Bellow, chapter 4, in The Dean's December, New York: Pocket Books, published 1983, page 59

[...] 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.

1954, Peter De Vries, chapter 6, in The Tunnel of Love, New York: Popular Library, page 63