Pother

Definition: Pother

Pother

Noun

1. An excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft".

Verb

1. Make upset or troubled.

2. Make a fuss; be agitated.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pother" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Pother

Disorder

Turmoil; ferment; (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.

Excitability

Trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry, fuss, flurry; fluster, flutter; pother, stew, ferment; whirl; buck fever; hurry-skurry, thrill; (feeling); state of excitement, fever of excitement; transport.

Feeling

Blush, suffusion, flush; hectic; tingling, thrill, turn, shock; agitation; (irregular motion); quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor; throb, throbbing; pulsation, palpitation, panting; trepidation, perturbation; ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment; state of excitement.

Pain

Displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze, feeze (U.S.); disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.

Annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener; bore, bother, pother, hot water, "sea of troubles", hornet's nest, plague, pest.

Crosswords: Pother

Albanian

potere (ado, bedlam, carrying-on, clutter, din, fracas, fray, hoopla, hoot, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly burly, jangle, noise, pandemonium, racket, rowdyism, rumpus, shindy, smash, uproar), trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, disturb, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), trazirë (bewilderment, commotion, convulsion, disorder, dustup, fuss, hustle, outbreak, qualm, queasiness, queasy, riot, ruction, shindy, turbulence, turmoil, upheaval), shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, disturb, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upheaval, upset, welter), bëj rrëmujë (clutter, disorder, hash, litter, mess). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تشوش (addle, become confused, confusion, fog, fogginess, incoherence, mix up, morass, muddling, perplexity, perturbation, promiscuity, ramp, ravel, tangle), ‏ضوضاء (brawl, clamor, clamour, clutter, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, pandemonium, plonk, racket, row, rowdiness, rowdyism, rumpus, shouting, stink, tub-thumping, tumult), ‏ضجة (ado, botcher, bother, clutter, din, hullabaloo, hustle, noise, racket, roar, row, rumor, rumour, rumpus, sensation, shindy, sound, stir, storm, titbit, tumult). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суматоха (bustle, commotion, flurry, helter-skelter, hurry, mix up, perturbation, rumpus, stirabout), суетня (alarms and excursions, bustle, hoopla, scurry), смут (alarms and excursions, disturbance, perturbation, turmoil, unrest), шум (ado, ballyhoo, bobbery, boom, buzz, clam, coil, discord, murmur, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, rattle, reclame, row, sound, stir, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), гюрултия (hullabaloo, rattle, ruction), вълнение (agitation, commotion, dither, emotion, excitement, ferment, flurry, gurgitation, heartbeat, lather, nervousness, perturbation, pulse, roughness, snit, stir, surge, tear, throb, to-do, trouble, tumult, turmoil, unrest, upset), врява (ado, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hue, hurly burly, kick up, noise, noisiness, outcry, pandemonium, racket, row, ruckus, rumpus, shine, to-do, tumult, uproar), вдигам врява (din, racket, roister), задушлив облак, безпокоя (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, chivy, discompose, disturb, exercise, fash, feeze, gall, inconvenience, molest, put about, vex, worry). (various references)

Czech

trápit (afflict, agonize, ail, bait, beset, bother, discommode, disgruntle, grieve, nag, pain, pester, plague, rack, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, vex, worry), rámusit (racketeer), rámus (din, fuss, hubbub, hurly burly, noise, racket, roar, row, uproar), lomozit, hřmot (din, racket), dusivý kouř. (various references)

French

vacarme, tapage, agitation. (various references)

German

Aufregung (agitation, commotion, discomposure, dither, excitement, fermentation, flap, flurry, fuss, inflammation, stir). (various references)

Greek 

φασαρία (ado, bedlam, bustle, commotion, din, fracas, fuss, hassle, hob, nuisance, rowdiness, trouble), ενοχλώ (act up, ail, annoy, badger, bedevil, bother, derange, discommode, disturb, fret, get someone's back up, grate on, harass, heckle, incommode, inconvenience, infest, irk, irritate, jar on, pester, trouble), ταραχή (agitation, apprehension, bustle, coil, commotion, consternation, disturbance, flurry, fluster, flutter, frenzy, fuss, outbreak, perturbation, restlessness, riot, row, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scrimmage, stir, trepidation, trouble, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter). (various references)

Hungarian

porfelhõ (dust storm, smoke), gyötör (exercise, maltreat, mortify, nag, obsess, pain, persecute, plague, tantalize, to agonize, to bait, to crucify, to fag, to gnaw, to harry, to lacerate, to maltreat, to obsess, to pain, to persecute, to plague, to rack, to roil, to torment, to wring, wrung). (various references)

Italian

fumo (fume, smoke, smoking, steam), confusione (abashment, ado, bedlam, carry on, chaos, clutter, commotion, confusion, disorder, disturbance, embarrassment, fuss, haze, hotchpotch, hubbub, jumble, mess, mix up, muddle, noise, puzzledom, shambles, stir). (various references)

Pig Latin

otherpay

Portuguese

perturbar (agitate, break, cloud, commove, confound, confuse, depolarise, derange, disarray, disquiet, disturb, faze, flurry, fluster, harass, incommode, mess, overturn, perturb, pull down, puzzle, ruffle, shake, throw-out, toss, trouble, unbalance, unhinge, unsettle, upset), ruído (ado, bluster, bruit, clatter, clop, din, loudness, noise, rustle, rut, souffle), inquietar (colorwash, colourwash, discomfort, disquiet, disturb, fidget, preoccupy, trouble), incomodar-se (trouble), confusão (baffle, bedlam, bother, bungle, clutter, confusion, daze, disarray, discomfiture, discomposure, disturbance, donnybrook, embroilment, entanglement, fog, foul-up, fuddle, intricacy, involution, involvement, jumble, kettle of fish, labyrinth, macaroni, maze, medley, mess, mind-breaker, mingle-mangle, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix-up, moil, muddle, mull, muss, olio, pandemonium, pell-mell, perplexity, perturbation, puddle, puzzle, ravel, rough-and-tumble, rout, shuffle, skein, to-do, tumble, turbidity, turmoil), barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, cracking, din, donnybrook, fracas, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, jazz, knockabout, noise, racket, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), atormentar (abuse, afflict, agonize, badger, bait, devil, discomfort, fret, gall, gnaw, grill, harrow, harry, lacerate, lay hold, martyr, mortify, obsess, oppress, pain, persecute, pester, prey, rack, scarify, tantalize, torment, torture), algazarra (clamor, clamour, clatter, clutter, hullabaloo, outcry, racket, rattle, roughhouse, row, shindy, tumult, uproar, whoop), afligir-se (grieve, moan, sadden, worry). (various references)

Romanian

plictisi (annoy, bore, bother, discommode, glut, irk, pall upon, pick on, plague, trouble, weary, worry, worry out), zarvã (ado, affray, altercation, bobbery, brawling, bustle, clutter, din, dispute, dust, fuss, hubbub, kerfuffle, noise, racket, riot, row, rumpus, scandal, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), nu lãsa în pace (bully, keep at, pester), nor de praf, nelinişti (discomfort, discompose, disquiet, flutter, fret, perturb, worry), fum înecãcios. (various references)

Russian 

удушливый дым, шум (bluster, bobbery, bruit, charivari, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, clutter, din, dust-up, friction, hubbub, hue, hue and cry, hullabaloo, kick up, kick-up, murmur, noise, noisiness, racket, racquet, rough house, row, ruckus, rumpus, shindy, sound, turmoil, turnup, uproar, whir, whirr), волновать (agitate, alarm, fluster, flutter, hype up, move, overexcite, perturb). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

metež (helter-skelter, hubbub, pell mell, scuffle, trouble, tumult, turmoil, uproar, upset), gužva (affray, brawl, crowd, crush, jam, melee, row, shindy, squeeze, stir, tussle), dizati graju. (various references)

Spanish

confusión (abashment, baffle, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, dislocation, disorganization, distraction, fluster, fog, haziness, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, knockabout, litter, maze, mess, mix up, mix-up, muddle, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, shambles, tangle, turmoil, welter). (various references)

Swedish

stickande rök. (various references)

Turkish

toz bulutu (cloud of dust), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upheaval, upset, wooliness, woolliness), gürültü etmek (be too noisy, clamor, clamour, crash, din, make noise, noise, racket, vociferate), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter), dert olmak (become a worry to smb., prey on one's mind, prey upon one's mind), dert (affliction, bore, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, evil, fear, grief, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, nuisance, pain, pip, plague, rock, scourge, solicitudes, sorrow, suffering, throe, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe, worry), curcuna (Charivari, noisy confusion, pell mell, pellmell, racket, razzle-dazzle, uproar), başını ağrıtmak, şamata (carrying-on, carryings on, conviviality, din, dustup, great noise, hell, hilarity, hoo-ha, hubbub, racket, rag, razzle-dazzle, riot, ripsnorter, row, shindy, uproar, whoopee), üzmek (affect, afflict, aggrieve, agitate, break up, cast down, chagrin, deject, desolate, disgruntle, distress, fret, grieve, grind, grind down, hatchel, hit, lacerate, lead smb. a dance, mope, pain, put out, sadden, shake, spite, trouble, vex, worry). (various references)

Ukrainian

хвилювати (affect, agitate, amove, appeal, commove, disturb, embroil, excite, ferment, fluster, inflame, perturbate, reck, tempest, worry), хвилювання (agitation, boil, bubble, care, disturbance, excitation, feeze, fermentation, fizzle, heartbeat, perturbation, pucker, stirring, swell, throb, uproar), шум (ado, alarm, bobbery, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, clutter, hoity toity, hubbub, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, oration, racket, racquet, row, ruction, sound, sputter, tumult, uproar), курява. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng inh ỏi sự l� m rối lên, sự l� m nhặng xị lên sự biểu lộ quá �"n � o nỗi đau đớn, đám khói nghẹt thở, đám bụi nghẹt thở tiếng ầm ầm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pother": potherb, potherbs, pothered, pothering, pothers. (additional references)

Words containing "pother": hypothermal, hypothermia, hypothermias, hypothermic. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pother" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pather, Pethor, Pither, plother, Pokhrel, Porthmeor, Porthor, posher, poter, Potger, Pothe, potheen, potzer, puhtmet, topher, vother. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: thorpe.

-1 letter: ephor, hoper, other, repot, thorp, throe, toper, tophe, trope.

-2 letters: hero, hoer, hope, pert, phot, poet, pore, port, repo, rope, rote, thro, tope, toph, tore, trop.

-3 letters: eth, hep, her, het, hoe, hop, hot, ope, opt, ore, ort, peh, per, pet, pht, poh, pot, pro, rep, ret, rho, roe, rot, the, tho, toe.

+1 letter: phorate, potherb, pothers, prophet, strophe, thorpes.

+2 letters: ephorate, eutrophy, heliport, homeport, hoopster, hotpress, metaphor, orthoepy, phorates, plethora, porthole, potherbs, pothered, potsherd, prophets, strophes, superhot, theropod, trophied, trophies.

+3 letters: atrophied, atrophies, bryophyte, ectomorph, ephorates, eutrophic, grapeshot, heatproof, heliports, homeports, hoopsters, hypocrite, metaphors, nephrotic, orthoepic, outpreach, plethoras, plethoric, portholes, pothering, potholder, pothunter, potsherds, prophetic, protheses, prothesis, prothetic, storeship, thereupon, theropods, tightrope, turophile, upholster, wirephoto, xerophyte.

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