All get one's goat synonyms

verb get one's goat

• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• rile — to irritate or vex.
• irk — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• gall — (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
• inflame — to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• torment — to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering; pain: to be tormented with violent headaches.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• peeve — to render peevish; annoy.
• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• miff — petulant displeasure; ill humor.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• bum — Someone's bum is the part of their body which they sit on.
• roil — to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment.
• steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
• nettle — any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
• pique — a fabric of cotton, spun rayon, or silk, woven lengthwise with raised cords.
• burn — If there is a fire or a flame somewhere, you say that there is a fire or flame burning there.
• hack — to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
• anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
• chafe — If your skin chafes or is chafed by something, it becomes sore as a result of something rubbing against it.
• fester — to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• mortify — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
• obsess — to dominate or preoccupy the thoughts, feelings, or desires of (a person); beset, trouble, or haunt persistently or abnormally: Suspicion obsessed him.
• fret — to feel or express worry, annoyance, discontent, or the like: Fretting about the lost ring isn't going to help.
• acerbate — to embitter or exasperate
• grate — a frame of metal bars for holding fuel when burning, as in a fireplace, furnace, or stove.
• put out — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.