What is mithering and how do I pronounce it?

[MoonBaby1]

I’ve only ever seen it on MN. Is it said the said way as shivering or something else?

It's like faffing about but in a more depressing manner. Rhymes with either.

My-thering. Hassling by children, such as when they want to watch something over and over again

Pronounced my thering means bothering you or annoying you. Likely to be your mother on your case!

@TwoHeadedYellowBelliedHoleDig some people say "eether"!

Ahh, thanks! I looked it up but it had lots of different descriptions! Where is it used?

@TwoHeadedYellowBelliedHoleDig I must say either differently to you.

My-thering. Wittering at someone.

I grew up in the north west and it was used there. Now live in Norfolk where kids 'craze' their Mothers ("he's crazing me this morning") rather than mither them.

Id use it like this... Stop mithering me. As in annoying or bothering. I'm in the north east.

I pronounce it my-thur-ing, Thur like in Thursday.

My-thering

And it's a sort of fretful badgering (fretting if you're doing it, pestering if someone else is doing it around you)

This morning I used it - Could you feed the cat when you get downstairs? He’s been mithering me for 10 minutes but I need to make a phone call

Whining, faffing about, not achieving anything useful.

profyaffle I’m near Norfolk and that’s more familiar!

I’m in the NW and we say my-thering. Basically it’s worrying/fussing over something e.g I’m mithering about my car. Or it can mean someone is getting on at you about something e.g. my mum is mithering me to iron my curtains (never going to happen).

Yorkshire, pronounced as OneMoreLight does.
Bothersome, low-level nagging about something that irritates rather than angers. Like a fly at a picnic.

Yep, I grew up in the NW too, and although i've lived in Scotland for over 20 years, I still say mithering! And 'ooo i'm feeling mithered today'. Great word

Mye-thering.
A bit like nagging but more whiney or clingy, but it can be physical. So a child flopping themselves all over you whining for something, or holding on to your clothes as you try to cook.

Or adults wittering in a needy and repetitive way.

My midlands / s Pennines family use it.

Ha! It's like low-key hassling someone. Repeatedly asking something, hovering about, not necessarily with the intention to annoy or needle, but irritating nonetheless.

Birmingham, pronounced my-thering. :)

Where I live in the crap part of Derbyshire they have a great alternative which I use a lot “maunging” pronounced morn-jing.

Stop maunging around. Yer bogger.

Great word. I love it.

I'm in the SE and I know the word from reading Elizabeth Gaskell. I have always pronounced it my-thuring (the 'thu' like the word 'the' - but without a drawn out consonant).
Meaning = bothering, but in an irritating, nagging or quarrelsome way.

‘Stop mithering your dad, he’s trying to cook the dinner’.

It’s relentless unnecessary bothering.

I didn't hear it til I moved to Manchester in 2011. I love it though. Kids mither you. That on and on and on hassling. It's a good word.

I use it a lot. "Stop mithering on at me" when someone is pestering you

I'm in the SE and pronounce it differently - I say mithering like withering but with an m. Not sure if that is the SE accent, or I'm pronouncing it wrong, as you don't hear it often down here.

It's a Yorkshire thing isn't it ? Faffing around and bothering somebody.