pother

• You don't know what you're sayin Dickie was bewildered What's all this pother, Peggy?" —  Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
• I shall just go right on without any more pother, and put a date now and then when it is very particular Grandmamma has an assembly every week,--Tuesday is her day [Note 1 and now and then an extra one on Thursday or Saturday. —  Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow
• But forgotten is the pother, all the work day cares are gone, when she comes home to dear father with his nice clean apron on! —  Rippling Rhymes
• Not until the united efforts of all the men present had silenced feminine vociferation was it possible to understand what in the world the pother was about. —  The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.
• It could not last Then it was, at that moment, that a sharp little, gray little, dark-spotted, clean-cut, close-cropped, intelligent head, on a snaky, long neck, peeped out of the shadows, and peered about, as if to see what in whiskers all the pother was about. —  The Way of the Wild

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