different between nother vs pother

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?ð?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?ð?/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(?)

Etymology 1

From Old English n?hwæþer. Compare neither, nauther.

Pronoun

nother

1. (obsolete outside Britain and Caribbean dialects) Neither.

Adjective

nother (not comparable)

1. (obsolete outside Britain and Caribbean dialects) Neither.

Etymology 2

Variant of an other, another, influenced by re-analysis as a nother. Compare Middle English a noþer.

Pronoun

nother

1. (obsolete) Another.

Adjective

nother (not comparable)

1. (largely obsolete outside the US phrase a whole nother) Different, other.

Anagrams

• Hornet, Rhoten, Theron, Thoren, Thorne, enhort, hornet, other'n, throne

Middle English

Adverb

nother

1. nor

Yola

Alternative forms

• noor

Etymology

Cognate with English nother (“another”).

Adjective

nother

1. other

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain. Compare Dutch peuteren (“to rummage, poke”), and English potter, pudder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ð?/, /?p?ð?/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(?)
• Rhymes: -?ð?(?)

Noun

pother (countable and uncountable, plural pothers)

1. A commotion, a tempest.
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear III.ii:

     Let the great gods, / That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads, / Find out their enemies now.

   • 1941, Lewiston Morning Tribune, 14th of May:

     (name of the article) Flight Of Hess Causes Pother Among Germans

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 5,

     After some years there came a time when the Queen seemed to be ill and there was a great deal of bustle and pother about her in the castle and doctors came and the courtiers whispered.

Translations

Verb

pother (third-person singular simple present pothers, present participle pothering, simple past and past participle pothered)

1. (intransitive) To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.
2. (transitive) To puzzle or perplex.

Anagrams

• Thorpe, Topher, tephro-, thorpe