Play Hob With Meaning

(idiomatic, Britain, rustic US) mess with, cause trouble for

Example: 1838 June 2, N.Y. Mirror, 387/1
  They say it's playing hob with the fellers in these here parts.
1940, D.A. Lord, Our Lady in the Modern World, iii. 141
  The revolutionists who are playing hob with our generation are really masters of the obsolete.
  2010, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality §62
  It'll play hob with my sleep schedule but I suppose it can't be helped. Please let the house elves know that if I ask for an early breakfast at, say, three A.M. tomorrow morning, I'm to receive it.