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?

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.

I’m in the SE and have never heard it pronounced like that!

It's a cross between pestering and whining - can be done by adult or child, pronounced m- eye - thering with the emphasis on the mi - I think it's a Scottish word.

MI-Thering - Ther like Thursday.

It means bothering or getting in the way - my mum used it to describe the cats when they were after food and would prance about underfood and generally get in the way.

It's not really used in the south, but I've always read it as my-thering. I'm glad the pronunciation in my head seems to be correct

MYthering.
A granny who’d have been at least 120 now used to say it a lot. To her it meant low level wittering or the quieter sort of worrying or going on about something.

I've only ever heard Jeremy Kyle say it. RIP.

My thur ing. I grew up in the NW and heard this lots

Means getting on someone’s tits by bothering them a lot for something.

@Puppymonkey yes I'm Derbyshire and use maunging as well. Never used Bogger until I heard dFIL use it, he was over the border in Notts though. He was affectionately known as "the old Bogger" by us all.

It means pestering. "Will ya gi'o'er mithering me?" my nannan used to say "towing" to mean the same thing.

I love threads like these - we don't use the word here in my part of east anglia. I'd say nagging or pestering I think.

I'm from the NW but never realised it was a regional word it's just normal to me! You can be mithered by someone (children pestering), you can feel mithered and you can also say that you can't be mithered to do something I.e can't be bothered.

Ha! Like OP, have only seen it written. Was always sure it rhymed with withering.

That’s going to be a hard one to change for me. Changing things that only exist in your head is the worst! My friend has tried to change how she reads ‘ethereal’, but no luck. Avoids it altogether now.

Pronounced my-thering and means pestering, bothering etc in Lancs.

My grandparents were from Lincolnshire and used this a lot - as in "quit your mithering" when someone is moaning on and on about something fairly low level.

My Mother used to say ‘stop mithering me’. It just means pestering and is traditionally used in Northern England.

Annoying, won't shut up, rambling about nonsense.

Yes, definitely pronounced like 'either' with the stress on the first syllable. Grew up in Lancashire.

Often followed by 'skriking' with toddlers

Mithering is one of the words I brought home to the south from the NW. No one down here has ever asked me what it means though so it must be commonplace. Definitely starts with MY.

Mithering is one of my faves! No one knows what it means where I live now though. I'm always telling the DC to stop mithering and I pronounce it my-thering. (Ex west mids here)

One for the NW folks... I remember my grandad used to say he was 'mithered t' dee-ath' (mithered to death, harassed etc) when faced with a difficult situation, lots of kids making noise, grandma nagging him etc.

It means pestering.

The y is pronounced like eye.

It’s very Northern.

Sorry, meant i not y.

As others have said, it's my-there-ring.
But we also (NW England) say moithering.
Moy-there-ring

Agree if someone is mithering you then they are nagging/generally annoying. However, there is the slightly different meaning which is if you say “I’m mithered” or “I’m mithering” which means you’re anxious or worried.