HASSLE

hassle, scuffle, tussle, dogfight, rough-and-tumble

(noun) disorderly fighting

fuss, trouble, bother, hassle

(noun) an angry disturbance; “he didn’t want to make a fuss”; “they had labor trouble”; “a spot of bother”

harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke

(verb) annoy continually or chronically; “He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked”; “This man harasses his female co-workers”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

hassle (plural hassles)

Trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems.

A fight or argument.

An action which is not worth the difficulty involved.

Verb

hassle (third-person singular simple present hassles, present participle hassling, simple past and past participle hassled)

To trouble, to bother, to annoy.

To pick a fight or start an argument.

Anagrams

• Hassel, Lashes, halses, lashes, selahs, shales, sheals

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

6 May 2025

HEEDLESS

(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”


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The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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