pother
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This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn.
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But the pother he had started went on.
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Since Army and Navy make a great pother about secrecy in the design and construction of planes, questions had to be asked in Washington.
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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.
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Pudder, pud′ėr, n. a pother, a bustle, a tumult.—v.i. to make a tumult or bustle.—v.t. to disturb: to perplex or confound.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Soviet ultimatums about Berlin, and assorted parliamentary pothers in Britain.
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Unlike their fraternity in the ring of Seville, where they are doomed to die, the animals are only doomed to be pothered; they are "scotched, not killed."
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by Orton, James
“As if he would want to be pothered with an old aunt!” cried Rhoda.
From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace
That she possessed any sense of humour was in itself one of those human miracles which metaphysicians are always pothering over without arriving anywhere; for her previous environment had been particularly humourless.
From The Ragged Edge by MacGrath, Harold
The remaining 361 days the sun is pothering around all over the shop.
From The Cruise of the Snark by London, Jack
See them prepare a dish of various fish, Showering profuse the pounded Indian grain, An overpowering vapour, gallimaufry A multitude confused of pothering odours!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac
While his subtle mind was pothering with schemes of detection, the affair presented itself in another light, and he laughed at his own dulness.
From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis
In a few moments I hear cries and yells and shouts, and a pothering and squabbling.
From The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig
