Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother. [Written also potter, and pudder.] "What a pother and stir!" Oldham. "Coming on with a terrible pother." Wordsworth.
To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
To harass and perplex; to worry. "Pothers and wearies himself." Locke.
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