Pother \Poth"er\, n. [Cf. D. peuteren to rummage, poke. Cf.
Potter, Pudder.]
Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. [Written also
potter, and pudder.] "What a pother and stir!" --Oldham.
"Coming on with a terrible pother." --Wordsworth.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pother \Poth"er\, v. i.
To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pother \Poth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pothered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Pothering.]
To harass and perplex; to worry. "Pothers and wearies
himself." --Locke.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pother
n : an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there
was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither, fuss,
tizzy, flap]
v 1: make upset or troubled
2: make a fuss; be agitated [syn: dither, flap]
WordNet (r) 2.0
220 Moby Thesaurus words for "pother":
abash, addle, addle the wits, ado, aggravate, aggravation,
agitation, ail, annoy, badger, baffle, bafflement, bait, ball up,
be at, be the matter, becloud, bedazzle, bedevil, befuddle,
befuddlement, beset, bewilder, bewilderment, bother, botheration,
brawl, bristle, broil, brouhaha, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up,
burst, bustle, chaos, chivy, clamor, cloud, commotion,
complicate matters, concern, confoundment, confuse, confusion,
daze, dazzle, devil, dilemma, discombobulate, discombobulation,
discomfit, discomfiture, discommode, discompose, discomposure,
disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment,
dismay, disorder, disorganization, disorganize, disorient,
disorientation, distemper, distress, disturb, disturbance, dither,
dog, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, embarrass, embarrassment,
embroilment, enigma, entangle, exasperate, exasperation, exercise,
fash, feery-fary, ferment, fidgetiness, fit, fix, flap, flummox,
flurry, fluster, flusteration, flustration, flutter, flutteriness,
fog, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fret, fuddle,
fuddlement, furore, fuss, fussiness, get, gripe, harass, harry,
hassle, haze, heckle, hector, helter-skelter, hound, hubbub,
hullabaloo, hurly-burly, inconvenience, irk, jam, jumble, lather,
maelstrom, maze, melee, mess, miff, mist, mix up, moider, molest,
muddle, muddlement, mystery, nag, needle, nettle, nonplus, nudzh,
peeve, pell-mell, perplex, perplexity, persecute, perturb,
perturbation, pester, pick on, pickle, pique, plague, plight,
pluck the beard, predicament, problem, provoke, pucker, put out,
put to it, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, racket, raise hell,
rampage, rattle, restlessness, riddle, ride, rile, riot, roil,
rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus,
scramble, scrape, shindy, shuffle, spasm, spurt, stew, stir, sweat,
swirl, swivet, tease, throw into confusion, tizzy, to-do, torment,
trouble, try the patience, tumult, turbulence, turmoil,
tweak the nose, twitter, twitteration, unassuredness, unquiet,
unsettle, unsettlement, uproar, upset, vex, vortex, whirl,
whirlpool, whirlwind, worry
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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