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?

Tilda
Depends how you say either.

You can either ☺ have eye-thur or ee-ther.
Let's call the whole thing off!

We use it in Ireland. "Stop mithering me" if someone is nagging or "I'm mithered" if there's too much to think about. You might also tell someone they look mithered.

@GoodyAdultHumanFemale oh yes, of course, so it would be m-eye-thur!

DM from Yorkshire. Pronounced my-there- ing. Means persistently bothering someone.

My elderly DM is from Cumbria and says mithering (pronounced MYE-ther-ing) to mean pestering or bothering.

Being a total fucking pain in the arse.

Much like Remainers.

Oh it's definitely moy-thering here. As in 'dunna moither'.

My thuring

West mids here and it's used regularly.

my mum is mithering me to iron my curtains (never going to happen)

This must be a NW mother thing, every bloody time she walks in my house I get...
"when are you gonna iron them curtains Our Corn?"
"I'm not Mam"
Followed by an audible tut from my mother and we proceed as normal. She dun't half mither.

Long I. Like tithe.

Lancashire

I'm in the West Country and I use mithering. Fairly regularly actually. About both kids and cats. I don't hail from here, I'm a Londoner. DH is West Midlands. We both use it.

"Mummy, mummy, mummy ,mummy mummy... remember that thing i asked you 2 seconds ago and will ask you again incessantly forever" = mithering (my-the-ring)

Scottish so nobody says it here. Just as well as I say it to rhyme with withering. I'm absolutely convinced this is how they said it on All Creatures Great and Small 35 years ago.

Mithering means hassling, pestering, nagging. I didn't realise this was regional and now I'm not sure where I picked it up, as I've lived all over really.

I was born in London and first heard it when we moved to the North West. Knew someone who used to say stop mithering me all the time.

Glad I read this thread, I've never used the word, but would have pronounced it to rhyme with withering. Saved from making a fool of myself in the future!

The peerless Peter Tinniswood in one of his novels, described a particular rain as "soft and mithering". A perfect description of a particular kind of UK rain, persistent and daylong.

I miss both the word and the rain. In Australia it pisses down a storm , usually briefly. If we're lucky. Unusually it's been raining nearly all day today, I'm happy to say.