pother

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Pother, pother, My master and brother, Who may endure thee, Thus failing in fury?

From The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales by Grant, James, archaeologist

But the Poltroon with the white wig was not out of his Pother yet.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus

Pother, poth′ėr, n. bustle: confusion.—v.t. to puzzle: to perplex: to tease.—v.i. to make a pother.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various