nuisance
noun
[ ˈnjuːs(ə)ns ]
• a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance.
• "it's a nuisance having all those people clomping through the house"
Similar:
source of annoyance/irritation,
annoyance,
inconvenience,
bore,
bother,
irritant,
problem,
difficulty,
trouble,
trial,
burden,
pest,
plague,
thorn in one's side/flesh,
pain,
pain in the neck,
pain in the backside,
headache,
hassle,
bind,
drag,
aggravation,
menace,
nyaff,
skelf,
pain in the butt,
nudnik,
burr under/in someone's saddle,
fair cow,
nark,
blister,
infliction,
pain in the arse,
pain in the ass,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘injury, hurt’): from Old French, ‘hurt’, from the verb nuire, from Latin nocere ‘to harm’.
