hassle

n.

1. An argument or a fight.
2. Trouble; bother.

v., -sled, -sling, -sles.

v.intr.
To argue or fight: customers hassling with merchants over high prices.

v.tr.
To bother or harass: street gangs hassling passersby.

[Origin unknown.]

WORD HISTORY   It is difficult to believe that there were no hassles before 1945, the year in which the noun hassle is first recorded in English. The origins of this word might be considered a hassle for the etymologist. An English dialect word, hassle, meaning "to hack at, cut with a blunt knife and with a sawing motion," is recorded at the end of the 19th century. A Southern dialect word, hassle, "to pant, breathe heavily," is also a possible source. A more popular notion has been that hassle is a blend, but here again we have a hassle. Three separate possibilities have been proposed, a combination of harass and hustle, haggle and tussle, and haggle and wrestle. Given all these possibilities, it is clear why words such as hassle end up with the etymology "origin unknown."

noun

A discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed: altercation, argument, bicker, clash, contention, controversy, debate, difficulty, disagreement, dispute, fight, polemic, quarrel, run-in, spat, squabble, tiff, word (used in plural), wrangle. Informal rhubarb, tangle. See conflict/cooperation.

verb

To engage in a quarrel: argue, bicker, contend, dispute, fight, quarrel, quibble, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle. Informal tangle. Idioms: cross swords, have it out, have words, lock horns. See conflict/cooperation.

n

Definition: problem, fight
Antonyms: agreement, peace

v

Definition: bother, harass
Antonyms: agree, concur, make peace

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - skænderi
v. intr. - skændes
v. tr. - chikanere

Nederlands (Dutch)
herrie, ruzie, lastig vallen, ruziemaken, kijven, raspend ademen

Français (French)
n. - complication, embêtements, (US) chamaillerie
v. intr. - talonner (à propos de), talonner qn, stresser
v. tr. - talonner, stresser

Deutsch (German)
n. - Ärger, etwas Umständliches
v. - schikanieren

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (καθομ.) μπελάς, σκοτούρα, ενόχληση, διαπληκτισμός
v. - καβγαδίζω, λογομαχώ, διαπληκτίζομαι, παρενοχλώ

Italiano (Italian)
litigare, molestare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - briga (f) (discussão forte)
v. - discutir fortemente, irritar (gír.)

Русский (Russian)
перебранка, надоедать, приставать, оскорблять

Español (Spanish)
n. - pelea, riña, problema
v. intr. - importunar, molestar
v. tr. - importunar, molestar

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - gräl, strul
v. - gräla, trakassera

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
激战, 争论, 与...争辩

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 激戰
v. intr. - 爭論
v. tr. - 與...爭辯

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 혼란, 싸움, 불요 불굴의 노력
v. intr. - 말다툼하다, 싸우다
v. tr. - ~을 괴롭히다, 들볶다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 混乱, 苦闘, 口論, 激論
v. - いざこざを起こす, 口論する, 問題をかかえる, 苦しめる, 悩ます

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مشاحنه, قتال (فعل) يتشاجر, يتشاحن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮ויכוח, ריב‬
v. intr. - ‮רב, התווכח‬
v. tr. - ‮הציק, עשה צרות‬

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