pother
English
Etymology
Origin uncertain. Compare Dutch peuteren (“to rummage, poke”), and English potter, pudder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpʌðə/, /ˈpɒðə/
- Rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
- Rhymes: -ɒðə(ɹ)
Noun
pother (countable and uncountable, plural pothers)
- A commotion, a tempest.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene 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.
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Translations
a commotion, a tempest
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Verb
pother (third-person singular simple present pothers, present participle pothering, simple past and past participle pothered)
- (intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
- (transitive) To puzzle or perplex.
Anagrams
- Thorpe, Topher, tephro-, thorpe