Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pother

1 sense of pother

Sense 1
dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap -- (an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft")
       => agitation -- (a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb pother

2 senses of pother

Sense 1
pother -- (make upset or troubled)
       => agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up -- (cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks")

Sense 2
dither, flap, pother -- (make a fuss; be agitated)
       => fuss, niggle, fret -- (worry unnecessarily or excessively; "don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now")