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Trouble

means a moral whirlwind. (Latin, turbo, a whirlwind; Italian, turbare; French, troubler.) Disturb is from the same root. The idea pervades all such words as agitation, commotion, vexation, a tossing up and down, etc.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Trojan
Trojan War (The)
Trolls
Trolly
Trompée
Troness, Tronis, or Trophy Money, or Trophy Tax
Troopers
Troops of the Line
Trophonios (Greek)
Troubadours
Trouble
Trouillogan’s Advice
Trout
Trouveres
Trovatore (Il)
Trows
Troxartas [bread-eater]
Troy-Novant (London)
Troy-town
Troy Weight
Truce of God