Crossword clues for hassle
hassle
- Badger lashes out
- Irritating inconvenience
- Harry possesses silver, oddly
- Difficulty with ship entering sound
- Trouble as ship gets stuck in sound
- Give a hard time
- Annoy continually
- Pester persistently
- Annoy persistently
- Royal pain
- Major inconvenience
- Major pain in the neck
- Major headache
- Annoying inconvenience
- Great bother
- Badger or hound
- Give grief to
- Pain in the rear
- Minor but aggravating problem
- Major annoyance
- Give one a hard time
- Red tape, e.g
- Persistently annoy
- More than an inconvenience
- Major bother
- Give someone a hard time
- Talking to customer service, typically
- Real pain in the ass
- Procedural pain
- Paperwork, often
- Long lines, e.g
- Frustrating experience
- Filling out forms, often
- Exasperating experience
- Bothersome dispute
- Big runaround
- Big headache
- Annoying ordeal
- Annoying experience
- Aggravating bother
- Big bother
- Bothersome task
- Headache
- Harass — grief
- Pain in the neck
- Inconvenience
- Annoyance
- Getting through a busy toll plaza, e.g.
- Bug no end
- Fuss and bother
- Pain in the behind
- Big inconvenience
- Give a hard time to
- An angry disturbance
- Disorderly fighting
- Be a pain in the neck
- Argue
- Run-in
- Wrangle
- Disagreement
- Argument
- Disorderly dispute
- Squabble
- Fight
- Heated argument
- Rhubarb's relative
- Relative of a rhubarb
- Kin of a rumble
- To-do
- Girl on cycle visits boy in trouble
- Getting through a busy toll plaza, e.g
- Owns toboggan, endless bother
- Well, going round ship is a problem
- Ship entering sound exhibiting difficulty
- Nuisance Hardy appropriates pair of shorts
- Fool in hospital left ecstasy — bother
- Lashes out when there is trouble
- Problem with smalls filling up well
- Problem ship coming into sound
- Bother, fuss
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hassle \hassle\ n.
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An inconvenience caused by difficulties encountered trying to accomplish a task; as, finding a parking place in midtown is always a hassle.
Syn: fuss, trouble, bother.
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disorderly fighting; an angry dispute or disturbance.
Syn: hassle, scuffle, tussle, rough-and-tumble.
hassle \hassle\ v. i.
to dispute or quarrel, often over petty disagreements.
To expend excessive time and energy trying to accomplish a task.
hassle \hassle\ v. t. to repeatedly annoy; as, He is known to hassle his staff when he is overworked.
Syn: harass, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1945, American English, perhaps from U.S. Southern dialectal hassle "to pant, breathe noisily" (1928), of unknown origin; or perhaps from hatchel "to harass" (1800), which may be a variant of hazel, the name of the plant that furnished switches for whippings. Noted in 1946 as a show biz vogue word.
1951, from hassle (n.). Related: Hassled; hassling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 trouble, bother, unwanted annoyances or problems. 2 A fight or argument. 3 An action which is not worth the difficulty involved. vb. 1 To trouble, to bother, to annoy. 2 To pick a fight or start an argument.
WordNet
n. an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble, bother]
disorderly fighting [syn: scuffle, tussle, dogfingt, rough-and-tumble]
v. annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]
Wikipedia
Hassle is the debut album by the Swedish pop singer Erik Hassle. The album was released on August 19, 2009 in Sweden, and features the top 30 singles " Hurtful" and "Don't Bring Flowers". The album peaked at number 2 on the Swedish album charts.
Hassle is a location in Närke, Sweden, where a Celtic treasure was found in 1936.
The treasure comprises a large bronze cauldron which contained two Bronze Age swords of the Hallstatt type, a pommel of bronze, two bronze buckets with ciste a cordoni, two small hooks of bronze and twelve large circular bronze plates with fittings of iron. All of the items were imported.
The cauldron belongs to a special kind of cultic cauldrons usually found in Italy and Greece, while the buckets are of a kind found in southern and central Europe.
Usage examples of "hassle".
Perhaps if Issle knew the truth, the girl would hesitate before hassling her again.
While imbibing, he found several of the top sergeants of the tanker battalion and promised them invitations to a jungle juice party in order to ensure there would be no hassle with getting the drivers Junkman and Mop recruited in to sick call the next morning.
Added to that was the hassle of cajoling, browbeating or begging suppliers for their customer lists.
Israelis into Cuba, to deal with all that political hassle on top of the whole Shastri and technical thing.
Frankly, I could do without the hassle of charging you, Miss Brannigan, but you make it very tempting.
Then when they tried to get me to paddle my board out to hassle some longline tuna boats, I ran away and joined the navy.
His father had been a pastor while Hank was growing up, and the two of them had lived through a great many glories and hassles, the kind that come with pioneering churches, pastoring, itinerating.
Some pilots or traders end up in legal hassles a port or two down link.
I was putting in the hours who needed the hassle but he kept working on me telling me I was the smartest D.
The little white boy hassling the doorman at the B Street crackhouse when we showed took one look at Piss and shit, he nearly pissed his pants.
My clearance was not granted, but I was never hassled about it -- and instead of being sent to a top-secret radar installation near the Arctic Circle, I was passed over for promotion and placed in a job as sports editor of a base newspaper on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
Mexico perhaps twenty times before in his life and had never been hassled going in.
And his having one saves me the trouble of hassling with the airlines, going through the locals for permissions, all that.
The crack house still thrived, the police were still uncooperative, and his neighbors were unwilling to batter through their walls of inertia and distrust even though the daily hassles and shakedowns had grown intolerable.
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