Dictionary Definition
hassle
Noun
1 an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a
fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble, bother]
2 disorderly fighting [syn: scuffle, tussle, dogfingt, rough-and-tumble]
v : annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his
staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female
co-workers" [syn: harass,
harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈhæsl/, /"h
Extensive Definition
It comprises a large bronze cauldron which contained two
Bronze Age
swords of the Hallstatt type, a
pommel of bronze, two bronze buckets with ciste a cordoni, two
small hooks of bronze and twelve large circular bronze plates with
fittings of iron. All of the items were imported.
The cauldron belongs to a
special kind of cultic cauldrons usually found in Italy and Greece, while the
buckets are of a kind found in southern and central
Europe.
References
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
ado, agonize, altercation, anarchy, apologetics, apologia, apology, argue, argufy, argument, argumentation, bandy
words, barney, battle, beef, bicker, bickering, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, buffet, bug, bump heads, carp at, casuistry, cavil, chaos, choplogic, clamor, commotion, confusion, contend, contention, contest, controversy, cross swords,
cut and thrust, defense,
discept, disputation, dispute, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair,
dustup, embroilment, endeavor, essay, fabulous formless darkness,
fight, flyting, foofaraw, foul-up, fracas, free-for-all, fret at,
fuss, fuss at, give and
take, grunt and sweat, have it out, helter-skelter, henpeck, hubbub, huff and puff,
hurly-burly, join issue, knock-down-and-drag-out, license, litigation, lock horns,
logomachize,
logomachy, make a row,
melee, miff, misrule, mix-up, moot, morass, muddle, nag, nibble at, niggle, paper war, passage of
arms, peck at, pell-mell, pester, pettifog, pick at, pick on,
plead, polemic, polemicize, polemics, polemize, pother, quibble, racket, rampage, rhubarb, riot, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, run-in, scramble, scrap, screw-up, scuffle, set-to, shindy, snafu, spar, squabble, stir, strive, striving, struggle, take sides, thrash
out, to-do, trial,
trouble, try, try conclusions, tumult, turmoil, tussle, undertaking, uproar, verbal engagement, war of
words, whirl, wrangle, wrangling, wrestle, yap
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