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Meanings of pother in English

Portuguese
rebuliço

An excited state of agitation.

rebuliço
Synonyms
Examples for "fuss"
Examples for "fuss"
1
The league has come and gone without fuss; wait for the championship.
The Irish Times
2
The newscaster had made a fuss over that issue also, of course.
Cauldron of Ghosts
3
Grandmother wanted most of all to save the family money & fuss.
The new yorker
4
There are often days when I want something tasty with minimal fuss.
The Guardian
5
Why all the fuss, if Ireland is fully funded until next year?
The Irish Times
1
In time the gull will flap its wings; the airplane never does.
The Thunder Bird
2
There was no difference in flap success or complication rates between groups.
Pubmed
3
However, the size of this traditional flap was limited even after expansion.
Pubmed
4
Porky put the paper in his breast pocket and buttoned the flap.
The Boy Scouts on a Submarine
5
Gloria held aside the canvas flap; he followed her into the cave.
The Everlasting Whisper
1
It's the part about Lea seeing that sends me into a tizzy.
Wired
2
Besides, some rebellious part of me enjoyed driving her into a tizzy.
Shadow and Bone
3
I'm giving Bridesmaid to the next married-person-to-be who calls in a tizzy.
Wired
4
To tear apart this stupid competition and send everyone into a tizzy.
Throne of Glass
5
Gordon was all in a tizzy till he decided nothing important was gone.
The arms maker of berlin
1
In some ways that's a relief; you won't be tempted to dither.
Wired
2
After decades of dither and dather, it's important that ours is deliverable.
The Guardian
3
Although Pete wondered what had her in such a dither, he didn't ask.
In every heartbeat
4
She didn't want to take the time to dither over clothes.
Once bitten, twice dead
5
I'm an old man and I want to dither, Abyss help us all.'
Forge of Darkness
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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Translations for pother
Portuguese
rebuliço
Pother through the time
Pother across language varieties
United Kingdom
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