Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a tumult, bustle, or stir; potter.
- To perplex; embarrass; confuse; bother.
- noun A tumult; a confused noise; a bustle; pother.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To make a tumult or bustle; to splash; to make a pother or fuss; to potter; to meddle.
- transitive verb To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother.
- noun A pother; a tumult; a confused noise; turmoil; bustle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A confused
noise ;turmoil ;bustle ;tumult .
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Examples
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When it is considered what a pudder is made about essences, and how much all sorts of knowledge, discourse, and conversation are pestered and disordered by the careless and confused use and application of words, it will perhaps be thought worth while thoroughly to lay it open.
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Gentle critick! when thou hast weighed all this, and considered within thyself how much of thy own knowledge, discourse, and conversation has been pestered and disordered, at one time or other, by this, and this only: — What a pudder and racket in
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Gentle critick! when thou hast weighed all this, and considered within thyself how much of thy own knowledge, discourse, and conversation has been pestered and disordered, at one time or other, by this, and this only: — What a pudder and racket in
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If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this worlds burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, why torment us with all this unnecessary sympathy?
On the Tragedies of Shakspere Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Representation 1909
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The people take their religion from their minister "by scraps and mammocks, as he dispenses it in his Sunday's dole"; and "the superstitious man by his good will is an atheist, but being scared from thence by the pangs and gripes of a boiling conscience, all in a pudder shuffles up to himself such a God and such a worship as is most agreeable to remedy his fear."
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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I think it was the third day that we found the body of a Christian, scalped and most abominably mangled, and lying in a pudder of his blood; the birds of the desert screaming over him, as thick as flies.
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Parkin's Pints has been makin 'a great pudder over to
Margaret 1851
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The pony, hearing this pudder over his head, began apparently to think it would be best both for himself and Davie to return from whence they came, and accordingly commenced a retrograde movement towards Fairport.
The Antiquary 1845
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If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world's burden after, why all this pudder and preparation -- why torment us with all this unnecessary sympathy?
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays William Hazlitt 1804
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The pony, hearing this pudder over his head, began apparently to think it would be best both for himself and Davie to return from whence they came, and accordingly commenced a retrograde movement towards
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
qms commented on the word pudder
Celebrities, when they go out,
Expect the loud, unruly rout.
They pretend to shudder
At such vulgar pudder
But silence sows the seeds of doubt.
September 9, 2015