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Meanings of pother in English

Portuguese
rebuliço

An excited state of agitation.

        rebuliço
        Usage of pother in English
        1
        For, in reality, that was all the whole pother was amounting to.
        The Brentons
        2
        Never was a man's life cut short with less solemnity or pother.
        The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2)
        3
        Inside, the guard was snoring in defiance of the pother o'er his head.
        Robert Falconer
        4
        We have had a mighty pother here in print about rewarding of generals.
        Daniel Defoe
        5
        To me there seemed nothing to make such a pother about.
        The Beetle: A Mystery
        6
        Fortunately no, since you make such a pother of granting them.
        Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales
        7
        For this the pother of growth, the struggles, and the sufferings?
        Australia Felix
        8
        That woman-thequeen-whyare they in such a pother about her?
        Helen of troy
        9
        Is any one wiser or kinder or honester for all the literary pother?
        Without Prejudice
        10
        What was all this pother about hell as a future state?
        The Ragged Edge
        11
        Then I pray you, citizeness, what is all this pother about?
        The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
        12
        Now, what is there about Rooney's to inspire all this pother?
        Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
        13
        She dusted furiously, and in the midst of all the pother entered Mrs. Beeton.
        The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
        14
        What a pother the preachers do surely keep up there.
        Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil War
        15
        Harvey was stupified and indignant, yet he could hardly help smiling at the pother.
        The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney
        16
        Say good-morrow to her without making any pother about it.
        The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.
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        Portuguese
        rebuliço
        Pother through the time
        Pother across language varieties
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