nuisance

Definitions


[ˈnjuːsns], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance
(e.g: it's a nuisance having all those people clomping through the house)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘injury, hurt’): from Old French, ‘hurt’, from the verb nuire, from Latin nocere ‘to harm’




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