Read full poem →Is call'd, in women, only reputation:
About them both why keep we such a pother?
Part you with one, and I'll renounce the other.
Dictionary Entry
A commotion, a tempest.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. potherover potherpanchali potherpother greatpother muchpother dreadfulpother mighty
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Poetry examples for “pother”
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Read full poem →Militant here on earth! Triumphant, of course, then, elsewhere!
Ah, good Heaven, but I would I were out far away from the pother!
Read full poem →And from the point C. 20
In which the circles make a pother
Cutting and slashing one another,
Read full poem →Tell the woes of wilful waste:
Scorn their counsel, scorn their pother,
You can hang or drown at last.
Read full poem →“Is wary walking worth much pother?”
It grunted, as still it stayed.