pother
- n an excited state of agitation
- v make upset or troubled
- v make a fuss; be agitated
- A great nautical pother has been stirred in the Press because Old Ironsides was not sailed.
- The President's words created a temporary political pother.
- Midwestern parents and pedagogues have this autumn managed to raise a new pother, on the strenuous issue: What shall the well-dressed schoolgirl wear? At Port Fulton,.