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
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
With lofty disdain, Wall Street traders set their sights far beyond last week's pother of strikes, wage demands, price-control squabbles and reconversion growing pains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Intent on his pursuits, impervious to the demonic, he will not notice the gods' dreadful pother being made above his head.
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
The Doctor joined us rather inopportunely and, accounting for the situation, made no end of a pother with his traps and his canoe.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
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