pother

plural pothers

1. countableuncountableA commotion, a tempest.

   (name of the article) Flight Of Hess Causes Pother Among Germans

   1941, Lewiston Morning Tribune, 14th of May

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   Let the great gods, / That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads, / Find out their enemies now.

   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, [Act III, scene ii]

   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.

   1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998

present singular third person pothers · participle present pothering · participle past pothered · past pothered

1. intransitiveTo make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
2. transitiveTo puzzle or perplex.