badgering vs bother

badgering

noun
  • The act of one who badgers, pesters, or annoys. 

bother

noun
  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

  • Fuss, ado. 

verb
  • To do something which is of negligible inconvenience. 

  • To feel care or anxiety; to make or take trouble; to be troublesome. 

  • To annoy, to disturb, to irritate. 

intj
  • A mild expression of annoyance. 

How often have the words badgering and bother occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )