noun

• A commotion or fuss.

  ‘don't make such a pother!’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Why should an old woman at midnight in a deserted back alley adding a few drops to the Niagara of urine that flows through Casterbridge gutters cause such a pother?’
  • ‘My wife asked me if I could tell her what all that pother was about.’
  • ‘The pother she makes is so great, she might be the Queen of France.’

  Synonyms

  commotion, uproar, outcry, disturbance, hubbub, hurly-burly, fuss, upset, tumult, brouhaha, palaver, to-do, pother, turmoil, tempest, agitation, pandemonium, confusion