bother vs tarnation

bother

noun
  • Fuss, ado. 

  • Trouble, inconvenience. 

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. 

tarnation

adj
  • Generic intensifier. 

  • Bothersome; devilish. 

adv
  • Very; extremely. 

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