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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pother

Pother \Poth"er\, n. [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.

Pother

Pother \Poth"er\, v. i. To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.

Pother

Pother \Poth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pothered; p. pr. & vb. n. Pothering.] To harass and perplex; to worry. ``Pothers and wearies himself.''
--Locke.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pother

1590s, "disturbance, commotion," of unknown origin. Meaning "mental trouble" is from 1640s; verb sense of "to fluster" is attested from 1690s.

Wiktionary
pother

n. A commotion, a tempest. vb. (context intransitive English) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.

WordNet
pother

  1. n. an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither, fuss, tizzy, flap]

  2. v. make upset or troubled

  3. make a fuss; be agitated [syn: dither, flap]

Usage examples of "pother".

Maybe all this is useless pother, no looter coming, no danger closing in on me.

Line and bait drifted swiftly downstream into a pother of whitewater and rocks, and Haramis hauled it back to the pool, only to see it float away again.

Harps, horns--why, I am in a constant pother as to what you may be doing next.

I have to say that I never thought to find you in such a pother about an actress who doubles as a whore.

I had to jack in with pother deck and go over everything with a microscanner.

Undoubtedly this was La Belle Simone, whose captain had been in such a pother yesterday because he could not start for Bordeaux until six in the morning.

The young plesiosaur's graceful neck snapped as it impacted into the foaming pother of the new Mediterranean Sea.

It provided Brim's first unobstructed view forward since he left the bridge: the first enemy ship-a typical Cloud League transport made up of globes and cylinders co-located along a single tube-was now pothering along less than a quarter c'lenyt ahead and being overhauled rapidly.