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pother

/ˈpʌðə/

pother noun: a commotion, a tempest.

Noun

pother (countable and uncountable, plural pothers)

  1. A commotion, a tempest.
    • Let the great gods, / That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads, / Find out their enemies now.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • (name of the article) Flight Of Hess Causes Pother Among Germans1941, Lewiston Morning Tribune, 14th of May

Verb

pother (third-person singular simple present pothers, present participle pothering, simple past and past participle pothered)

  1. (intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
  2. (transitive) To puzzle or perplex.

pother meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

pother in Tamil

புகைப்படலம், பேரிரைச்சல்

pother in Bengali

গোলমাল, প্রবল উত্তেজনা, হৈচৈ করা, ব্যতিব্যস্ত হওয়া, ধাঁধায় ফেলা, হতভম্ব করা

pother in Kannada

ಹುಯಿಲು, ಗೊಂದಲ

Forms of pother

Noun
pluralpothers
Verb
third-person singular presentpothers
present participlepothering
past participlepothered
pastpothered

Origin of pother

Origin uncertain. Compare Dutch peuteren (“to rummage, poke”), and English potter, pudder.

Words that rhyme with pother

Questions about pother

What does pother mean?
Pother means a commotion, a tempest.
What is pother in Tamil?
Pother in Tamil is புகைப்படலம், பேரிரைச்சல். See Pother meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is pother?
Pother can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce pother?
Pother is pronounced /ˈpʌðə/.
What is the plural of pother?
The plural of pother is pothers.

Words near pother in the dictionary

  1. potheads
  2. pothecaries
  3. pothecary
  4. potheen
  5. potheens
  6. pother
  7. potherb
  8. potherbs
  9. pothered
  10. pothering
  11. pothers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pother (page history and authors); pother (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pother (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pother (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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