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Webster 1913 Edition


Pother

Poth′er

,
Noun.
[Cf. D.
peuteren
to rummage, poke. Cf.
Potter
,
Pudder
.]
Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.
[Written also
potter
, and
pudder
.]
“What a pother and stir!”
Oldham.
“Coming on with a terrible pother.”
Wordsworth.

Poth′er

,
Verb.
I.
To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.

Poth′er

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pothered
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Pothering
.]
To harass and perplex; to worry.
Pothers and wearies himself.”
Locke.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pother

POTH'ER

,
Noun.
[This word is vulgarly pronounced bother. Its origin and affinities are not ascertained.]
1.
Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter. [Low.]
2.
A suffocating cloud.

POTH'ER

,
Verb.
I.
To make a blustering ineffectual effort; to make a stir.

POTH'ER

,
Verb.
T.
To harass and perplex; to puzzle.

Definition 2024


pother

pother

English

Noun

pother (plural pothers)

  1. A commotion, a tempest.
    • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear III.ii:
      Let the great gods, / That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads, / Find out their enemies now.
    • 1941, Lewiston Morning Tribune, 14th of May:
      (name of the article) Flight Of Hess Causes Pother Among Germans
    • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 5,
      After some years there came a time when the Queen seemed to be ill and there was a great deal of bustle and pother about her in the castle and doctors came and the courtiers whispered.

Translations

Verb

pother (third-person singular simple present pothers, present participle pothering, simple past and past participle pothered)

  1. (intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.

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