pother
Americannoun
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commotion; uproar.
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a heated discussion, debate, or argument; fuss; to-do.
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a choking or suffocating cloud, as of smoke or dust.
verb (used with or without object)
noun
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a commotion, fuss, or disturbance
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a choking cloud of smoke, dust, etc
verb
Other Word Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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have potheredperfect
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has potheredperfect 3rd person singular
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is potheringprogressive 3rd person singular
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am potheringprogressive 1st person singular
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potherssingular 3rd person
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has been potheringperfect progressive 3rd person singular
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potheringparticiple
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have been potheringperfect progressive
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are potheringprogressive
Past
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had potheredperfect
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had been potheringperfect progressive
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was potheringprogressive singular
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potheredsimple
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were potheringprogressive plural
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potheredparticiple
Future
Etymology
Origin of pother
First recorded in 1585–95; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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But the pother he had started went on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did.
From Time Magazine Archive
Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite all the current pother about the mechanics of painting, there are actually so few ways of putting color on canvas that abstractionists get grey trying to think up new tricks.
From Time Magazine Archive
So all this pother was about a mere invitation to dinner!
From The Four Corners of the World by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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