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)
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pothers,
present (3rd person singular)
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pothered,
past participle, past
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pothering
present participle
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
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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pothersimple
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potherssimple
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have potheredperfect
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has potheredperfect
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am potheringprogressive
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are potheringprogressive
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is potheringprogressive
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have been potheringperfect progressive
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has been potheringperfect progressive
Past
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potheredsimple
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had potheredperfect
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was potheringprogressive
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were potheringprogressive
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had been potheringperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of pother
First recorded in 1585–95; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn.
From Time Magazine Archive
The epistolary pother had its genesis on June 13, when Watt and Arens sat together at a Washington banquet.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bedrock facts beneath the billows of press pother last week about the Gold Standard: France.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let the great Gods, that keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, find out their enemies now.
From Time Magazine Archive
But had their true condition here been known, that pother had been saved.
From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley
Soviet ultimatums about Berlin, and assorted parliamentary pothers in Britain.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike their fraternity in the ring of Seville, where they are doomed to die, the animals are only doomed to be pothered; they are "scotched, not killed."
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
“As if he would want to be pothered with an old aunt!” cried Rhoda.
From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Horace Petherick
“Ho! inteed!” exclaimed Angus, rising in wrath, and cramming his pipe into his vest pocket; “it is herself that will pe pothering you no more spout your dirty land, Samyool Ruvnshaw.”
From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The remaining 361 days the sun is pothering around all over the shop.
From The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
See them prepare a dish of various fish, Showering profuse the pounded Indian grain, An overpowering vapour, gallimaufry A multitude confused of pothering odours!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
While his subtle mind was pothering with schemes of detection, the affair presented itself in another light, and he laughed at his own dulness.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Lewis Wallace
In a few moments I hear cries and yells and shouts, and a pothering and squabbling.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
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