Hassle

Definition: Hassle

Hassle

Noun

1. An angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother".

2. Disorderly fighting.

Verb

1. Annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hassle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references)

Synonyms: Hassle

Crosswords: Hassle

It's all just one big plastic hassle. (Psych-Out; writing credit: Betty Tusher)

You start running a respectful business and I won't have to come in here and hassle you every night (48 Hrs.; writing credit: Roger Spottiswoode ; Walter Hill)

You see my new job's a hassle and kids have the flu ("The Cat's in the Cradle"; performing artist: Harry Chapin)

Hassle in a Castle (1966)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Berenstain Bears and the Homework Hassle (First Time Books) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Scooby-Doo - Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Street Hassle (reference)

• White Hassle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Shrek: Hassle at the Castle (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The 12th Commandment : Thou shalt not hassle. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

The existence of the European Union and the subsequent relaxation of passport controls for EU travelers make travel to all of these European short-haul holiday spots a hassle free option for U.K. Travelers. (references)

Political Economy

PERU

Labor experts assert that companies prefer this type of hiring because it affords them the chance to adapt their total payroll to the business cycle without the hassle of having to seek government approval to release workers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "hassle": hassle of travel ♦ no hassle. Additional references.

Beginning with "hassle": hassle-free.

Ending with "hassle": no-hassle.

Albanian

telash (difficulty, embarrassment, load, mess, nuisance, pickle, plight, predicament, scrape, stew, trouble, worry), sherr (blowup, kick up, miff, quarrel, rumpus, scrap, wrangle), llafe (blah, claptrap, comment, gab, jaw, scuttlebutt, taradiddle, tattle, tittle tattle, waffle), debat (controversy, debate, disputation, dispute, eristic, proceedings), bezdis (bore, displease, get, grate, Harrow, importune, inconvenience, nag, peeve, persecute, pester, press, pursue, ruffle, tease, trouble, vex), bezdi (annoyance, awkwardness, bogey, bother, botheration, displeasure, flea-bite, officiousness, peeve, trouble), bëj sherr (carp, quarrel). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشاحنة (quarrel, spat, wrangle), ‏قتال (arms, battle, bout, combat, conflict, hostilities, warfare), ‏تشاحن (bicker, jangle, spat, tiff, wrangle), ‏تشاجر (brawl, broil, come to blows, fraying, jangle, quarrel, row, rumble, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, set to, spat, squabble), ‏صراع (combat, conflict, contest, fight, strife, struggle, tussle, warfare, wrestling). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сборичкване (rough up, scrimmage), караница (altercation, brabble, brawl, jar, rhubarb, wrangle), кавга (altercation, broil, disagreement, doing, dustup, jangle, odds, quarrel, row, ruffle, rumpus, run in, scrape, set to, shindig, shindy, strife, warm words, wrangle). (various references)

Chinese 

障碍 (Barrier, handicap, Hassel, hurdle, hurdles, impediment). (various references)

Czech

hádka (altercation, argument, brawl, brush, bust up, ding-dong, dispute, fight, quarrel, row, scrap, set to, skirmish, squabble, strife, wrangle), potíž (difficulty, hitch, inconvenience, obstacle, snag), otravovat (annoy, bore, bother, bug, nag, nark, peeve, pester, worry), nepříjemnosti. (various references)

French

tracasser (harass), tracas, tanner, se quereller, se chamailler, emmerde, dispute, chamaillerie, bagarre. (various references)

German

theater (audience, carry on, drama, fuss, game, kerfuffle, palaver, scene, stage, theater, theater US, theaters, theaters US, theatre, theatres, to-do), schikanieren (bully, carp at, harass, haze, mess about, mess around, persecute, pick on, quibble, ride, to pick on, to torment, torment, victimize), mühe (attempt, bother, care, effort, labor, labour, pain, toil, trouble), bedrängen (attack, badger, beset, besiege, bulldoze, importune, pester, plague, press, pressurize, put pressure on, throng, to bulldoze), auseinandersetzung (analysis, argument, clash, confrontation, contention, debate, difference, discussion, dispute, partition, quarrel), ärger (aggravation, anger, annoyance, bother, chagrin, dander, exasperation, irritation, nuisance, resentment, tangle, trouble, upset, vexation, worry). (various references)

Greek 

φασαρία (ado, bedlam, bustle, commotion, din, fracas, fuss, hob, nuisance, pother, rowdiness, trouble), ενόχληση (annoyance, bother, disturbance, harassment, importunity, inconvenience, infestation, moil, molestation, nuisance, peeve, trouble, vexation). (various references)

Hebrew 

מאבק (conflict, contest, fight, struggle, tilt, tussle), טרח�" (bother, burden, pains, trouble), טר�"�" (bother, concern, discomfort, distress, nuisance). (various references)

Hungarian

vita (argument, battle of words, contention, contest, controversy, debate, discussion, disputation, dispute, moot, parley, polemics, quarrel, reasoning, snap), szóváltás (argument, squabble). (various references)

Indonesian

sakit kepala (headache, migraine), memusingkan (daze, queasy). (various references)

Italian

battibecco (bickering, miff, spat, squabble), alterco (altercation, contention, quarrel, wrangle). (various references)

Korean 

혼� � (Hassel, premarital). (various references)

Pig Latin

asslehay.(various references)

Portuguese

engrupir. (various references)

Russian 

ссора (affray, altercation, bad blood, difference, disagreement, falling-out, fracas, jar, muss, quarrel, ruction, rumpus, run-in, upset), стычка (encounter, engagement, passage at arms, passage of arms, skirmish), склока (run-in), препираться препирательство (dickering, hassling), перебранка (altercation, dustup, dust-up, high words, slanging match, squabble). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svađa (affray, altercation, brawl, contention, disagreement, odds, quarrel, rhubarb, spat, squabble), neprilika (inconvenience, nuisance, pickle, plight, predicament, trouble). (various references)

Spanish

reñir a (flare up, squabble, wrangle), problema (example, issue, problem, proposition, question, tender, trouble, worry), pelea (battle, broil, bust up, combat, concourse, cut, fight, fighting, infighting, mix in, mix up, punch-up, quarrel, scene, scrambling, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, shindig, shindy, skirmish, tiff, tussle), molestia (annoyance, awkwardness, bedevilment, bother, botheration, bug, disquiet, disturbance, hindrance, imposition, inconvenience, interference, nuisance, trouble, unrest, worry), molestar (annoy, badger, bar, bedevil, bother, commove, discommode, distract, disturb, estop, fag, faze, fret, fuss, harass, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, inflict, inhibit, intrude, irritate, molest, nettle, persecute, pester, prevent, put about, put out, put upon, tease, trouble, worry), lío (bundle, caper, clutter, do, fuss, game, hash, imbroglio, intrigue, liaison, mess, mix up, muddle, package, palaver, pell mell, pellmell, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, scrape, snarl up, stink, tangle, truss, wad), fastidiar (annoy, badger, bother, bug, devil, fuss, importune, irk, nag, needle, pip, play up, tease, tick off, vex), dar la lata a (tick off), bullicio (ado, bustle, hustle, uproar). (various references)

Swedish

problem (facer, issue, problem, problems, question, snarl, stickler, trouble). (various references)

Thai

การทะเลาะ, ทะเลาะ (haggle), รบกวน (annoy, badger, bug, bug one, harass, irk, itch, jar, molest, narc, nark), ความยุ่งยาก (hot water, labyrinth, stickler). (various references)

Turkish

zorluk (adversity, arduousness, complexity, complication, difficulty, entanglement, gaff, grueling, gruelling, hardness, hardship, hobble, rigor, rigour, rough, strain, stumbling block, tightness, toughness), uğraşma (effort, fight, struggle, tussle, war), tartışma çıkarmak, tartışma (altercation, argument, argumentation, bickering, brawl, breeze, broil, bust up, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, cross talk, debate, disagreement, discussion, disputation, dispute, jangle, moot, parley, quarrel, rap, row, set to, shooting match, spar, sparring, teach-in, wordy warfare, wrangle), rahatsız etmek (ail, annoy, badger, bait, bother, chafe, chivvy, chivy, derange, devil, discomfort, discommode, distract, disturb, get in smb.'s hair, goad, goad on, harass, hatchel, hump, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make a draft on, pester, put smb. to inconvenience, put upon, trouble, twist smb.'s tail, worry), münakaşa (altercation, argument, argumentation, bickering, disputation, dispute, spat), mücâdele (battle, campaign, combat, contest, fight, fighting, fray, race, scramble, struggle, tug, tug of war, tussle, war, warfare, wrestle, wrestling), kavga etmek (altercate, brawl, feud, fight, have a row with, have a set-to, jar, quarrel, scrap, set to, spar, tangle with, wrangle), güçlük (adversity, arduousness, complexity, complicacy, difficulty, hardship, hurdle, oppression, rub, stumbling block), canını sıkmak (annoy, bait, bother, cast down, devil, disgruntle, displease, distress oneself, fash, get in one's hair, give smb. the hump, give the hump, give the pips, irk, offput, put about, put off, ruffle smb.'s temper, trouble, turn off, vex). (various references)

Ukrainian

надокучати (annoy, bore, bother, molest, pester, vex), лайка (abuse, altercation, barge, chevrette, curse, damn, dog-skin, kid-skin, oath, ordure, scold, swear word, vituperation), бійка (affray, broil, fray, mix up, rough and tumble, scuffle, tousle). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hassle": hassled, hassles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hassle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Casslen, Haesje, Haessler, Halske, Hansil, Hapsley, hasel, Haseler, Hasely, hasle, hasli, Haslum, hassal, hassel, Hasselt, Hassen, hasset, Hassex, hasstle, hastle, hausse, haysel, hazzle, hesse, Hessels, hossile, h'self, husle, hussle, hussler, vassle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hassel, lashes, selahs, shales, sheals.

-1 letter: ashes, hales, heals, lases, leash, sales, seals, selah, shale, sheal, sheas, slash.

-2 letters: ales, haes, hale, heal, lase, lash, lass, leas, less, sale, sals, sash, seal, seas, sels, shea, shes.

-3 letters: ale, als, ash, ass, els, ess, hae, has, hes, las, lea, sae, sal, sea, sel, sha, she.

-4 letters: ae, ah, al, as, eh.

+1 letter: ashlers, ashless, clashes, flashes, hansels, hapless, haslets, hassels, hassled, hassles, hatless, lashers, leashes, plashes, sheilas, sheltas, slashed, slasher, slashes.

+2 letters: bathless, calashes, cashless, chadless, clashers, flashers, galoshes, hairless, haleness, halfness, haltless, handless, handsels, haploses, harmless, harslets, headless, heatless, heliasts, lavishes, nathless, pathless, plashers, satchels, seashell, shackles, shaliest, shambles, shellacs, shoalest, slashers, slatches, slathers, splashed, splasher, splashes, stealths, thawless, unlashes.