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flothers

flothers is the plural of flother.

Meaning of flother

Noun

flother (countable and uncountable, plural flothers)

  1. (Northumbria, countable, uncommon, Cumberland, now obsolete outside placenames) A miry bog.
    • They lived in Flother (as Flodder Hall was formerly known).
  2. (rare, uncountable) A state of agitation or disarray, a lather.
    • Ye windy, rhymin', bleth'rin hash, Ye'll tak in woo' to card to trash; [...] Ye rhyme 'bout thrums an' wabs thegither, A hotchy potchy in a flother.1809, Thomas Donaldson, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect / Both Humourous and Entertaining

Questions about flothers

What is flothers the plural of?
Flothers is the plural of flother.

Words near flothers in the dictionary

  1. flotels
  2. floterial
  3. floterials
  4. flotes
  5. flother
  6. flothers
  7. flotilin
  8. flotilla
  9. flotillas
  10. flotillin
  11. flotillins

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