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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Thus it was amid no end of Imperial pother last week that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ended his holiday in Scotland, resumed the helm at No. 10 Downing Street.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bedrock facts beneath the billows of press pother last week about the Gold Standard: France.
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
Pother, poth′ėr, n. bustle: confusion.—v.t. to puzzle: to perplex: to tease.—v.i. to make a pother.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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