Rother vs Pother – What’s the difference?

Rother vs Pother - What's the difference?

As an adjective rother is . As a noun pother is a commotion, a tempest. As a verb pother is to make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.

rother

Old English .

a horned animal, especially an ox

Old English. See (rudder).

A rudder.

* rother nail: a nail with a very full head, used for fastening the rudder irons of ships; so called by shipwrights.
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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

To make a bustle or stir; to be fussy.