botheration vs thorn

botheration and thorn both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
botheration	Yes	No	No	No
thorn	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, thorn is a hyponym of botheration; that is, thorn is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than botheration:

botheration: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
thorn: something that causes irritation and annoyance

Other hyponyms of botheration include nuisance, irritant, plague.

botheration (noun)	thorn (noun)
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness	something that causes irritation and annoyance
the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed	a Germanic character of runic origin
	a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf