Home › Words › M › moithermoithermoither means to bother or harass.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, moither ranks #2,710 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologySee moider (“to toil, muddle, pester”)verbto bother or harasse.g.“Gie o'er mitherin thi brother an come help me wi t'weshin”To toil; to labour.To perplex; to confuse.e.g.“She always had what her mother, who does not seem greatly to have cared for her, called “moithered” brains” — 1823, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], Elia. Essays which have Appeared under that Signature in The London Magazine, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.botherment 69% match — bother; annoyance vs moither →botherate 65% match — To bother. vs moither →bebother 61% match — To bring trouble upon. vs moither →bothering 60% match — That bothers; annoying, irritating. vs moither →bother 59% match — To annoy, to disturb, to irritate; to be troublesome to, to make trouble for. vs moither →wherret 58% match — A blow, especially on the face. vs moither →annoy 58% match — To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds. vs moither →botherance 58% match — Something that bothers; bother, annoyance, nuisance vs moither →