Green’s Dictionary of Slang

trouble v.

to bother, to worry (about).

1902

Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Aug. 14/4: I troubled Old Pol with my heels, and steered him into the gap. As we closed up the kid on the chestnut said, ‘By gawd! the old ‘un’s goin’ strong!’.

In derivatives

troubler (n.)

(US) a blow from a whip.

1859

Wkly Varieties (Boston, MA) 3 Sept. 3/4: Deserving of the Lash [...] Sentenced [...] to receive three troublers on that portion of his person extending below his waist.

In compounds

trouble-giblets (n.)

the penis.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 160: Inconvénient, m. The penis; ‘the trouble-giblets.’.

trouble-gusset (n.)

the penis.

1653

Urquhart (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 44: And some of the other women would give these names, my Roger, my cockatoo, my nimble-wimble, bush-beater, claw-buttock, evesdropper, pick-lock, pioneer, bully-ruffin, smell-smock, trouble-gusset, my lusty live sausage.

trouble-monkey (n.) [monkey n. (5b)]

the penis.

2002

D. King Boxy an Star 6: Feel like your trouble monkey aint in me. An it should be. So stick it in me. Come on.