Fother vs Pother - What's the difference?
fother | pother |
(obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort.
an old English measure of lead or other metals, usually containing 19.5 hundredweight; a fodder.
*1866 : Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19½ hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times. —James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168.
(dialect) Food for animals.
* 1663 ,
*:He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother , / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed.
(unit of weight)
(dialect) To feed animals (with fother).
To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).
A commotion, a tempest.
* 1605 , William Shakespeare, King Lear III.ii:
*1941 , Lewiston Morning Tribune,
As nouns the difference between fother and pother
is that fother is (obsolete) a wagonload; a load of any sort while pother is a commotion, a tempest.As verbs the difference between fother and pother
is that fother is (dialect) to feed animals (with fother) while pother is to make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.fother
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*pother
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(en noun)- Let the great gods, / That keep this dreadful pother o’er our heads, / Find out their enemies now.
14th of May:
- (name of the article) Flight Of Hess Causes Pother Among Germans