Botheration

"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.

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

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.

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

[...] 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.