tracasserie
French
Etymology
From tracasser (“to bother; to worry”) + -erie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁa.ka.sʁi/
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Noun
tracasserie f (plural tracasseries)
- (colloquial) hassle, annoyance
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 17, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- Major Pendennis longed to be off, and have a little pheasant-shooting at Stillbrook, and get rid of all annoyances and tracasseries of the village.
- harassment
Further reading
- “tracasserie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.