Pother

One thing that keeps haunting me about it is the name "Pother Nix."

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Pother there was over each item, Mr. Pinchin seeming to think that because he had been sick it was our Duty to have laid abed too, swallowing nought but Draughts and Slops.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

But the Poltroon with the white wig was not out of his Pother yet.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

I wondered how he could be in such a Pother, seeing that he was so close to shore, and that moreover there were those nigh unto him who could have helped him if they had had a Mind to it.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

= Pother = (_Doctor_), an apothecary, “city register, and walking story-book.”

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

What a Pother you make about the boiling of a Fowl, and flying in the Face of Nature, replied the

Zadig Or, The Book of Fate 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

Pother has missed the last 14 1 / 2 months from a concussion and eye condition.

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a Pother about the Orthography of Names and Things, that many Times, three Parts in four of a Folio

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey