pother
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Indiana's freshman Democratic Representative Randall S. Harmon, 55, shrugged off all the bother as mere pother.
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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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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.
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As usual, there is a pother about the new-rules and an argument as to how they shall be interpreted.
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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
Soviet ultimatums about Berlin, and assorted parliamentary pothers in Britain.
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“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 Horace Petherick
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 James Orton
“Ho! inteed!” exclaimed Angus, rising in wrath, and cramming his pipe into his vest pocket; “it is herself that will pe pothering you no more spout your dirty land, Samyool Ruvnshaw.”
From The Red Man's Revenge A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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 Ludwig Tieck
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 Isaac Disraeli
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 Lewis Wallace
The remaining 361 days the sun is pothering around all over the shop.
From The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
