nuisance.
A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
Meaning & usage
A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
The neighbor's dog barking throughout the night is a right nuisance - I'm going to complain.
What a nuisance to have to go now!
A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
You can be such a nuisance when you don't get your way.
Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
a public nuisance
Where this word comes from
From Middle English noysaunce, from Anglo-Norman nusaunce, nussance and Old French nuisance, from nuisir (“to harm”), from Latin nocēre. Doublet of nocence and nocency.
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