pother

American  

[poth-er] / ˈpɒð ər /

noun

1. commotion; uproar.

2. a heated discussion, debate, or argument; fuss; to-do.

3. a choking or suffocating cloud, as of smoke or dust.

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verb (used with or without object)

1. to worry; bother.

pother British  

/ ˈpɒðə /

noun

1. a commotion, fuss, or disturbance

2. a choking cloud of smoke, dust, etc

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verb

1. to make or be troubled or upset

Etymology

Origin of pother

First recorded in 1585–95; origin uncertain

Example Sentences

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 epistolary pother had its genesis on June 13, when Watt and Arens sat together at a Washington banquet.

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

There were signs last week that the pother about U.S. schools was no longer exclusively the jousting ground of editors and educationists.

From Time Magazine Archive

But through all the pother he still dashed full at the man whose face he knew.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)