pother

Example Sentences

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The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap.

From Time Magazine Archive

This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn.

From Time Magazine Archive

As usual, there is a pother about the new-rules and an argument as to how they shall be interpreted.

From Time Magazine Archive

For ten years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news.

From Time Magazine Archive

“There’s nowt to make sike a pother about,” he growled.

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis