pother
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈpʌðə/, /ˈpɒðə/
pother
- A commotion, a tempest.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear III.ii:
- Let the great gods, / That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads, / Find out their enemies now.
- 1941, Lewiston Morning Tribune, 14th of May ↗:
- (name of the article) Flight Of Hess Causes Pother Among Germans
- 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 5,
- After some years there came a time when the Queen seemed to be ill and there was a great deal of bustle and pother about her in the castle and doctors came and the courtiers whispered.
- 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear III.ii:
- Russian: шу́м
pother (pothers, present participle pothering; past and past participle pothered)
- (intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
- (transitive) To puzzle or perplex.
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