different between pother vs pather

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

English

Etymology

path +? -er

Noun

pather (plural pathers)

1. (computer games) A non-player character that walks a repeating path.

Anagrams

• Tharpe, hapter, tephra, teraph, threap