pother

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Intent on his pursuits, impervious to the demonic, he will not notice the gods' dreadful pother being made above his head.

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Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did.

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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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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