pothers

noun

plural of pother
1
as in huffs
a state of nervous or irritated concern always in a pother over the state of her garden

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2
as in disturbances
a state of noisy, confused activity the pother of city traffic that commuters face every day

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pothers
  1. huffs
  2. disturbances
  3. sweats
  4. commotions
  5. frets
  6. stirs
  7. noises
  8. turmoils
Noun
  • David walks out of the kitchen and Moira huffs and takes his spot over the pot.
    — Sabrina Weiss, PEOPLE, 31 Jan. 2026
  • As much as Payton bristles about media storylines and huffs about tempo questions, the Broncos went 25 minutes without a first down against Las Vegas.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 22 Nov. 2025
Definition of huffs
Noun
  • Disturbing the peace … The measurements found that the ionospheric disturbances resulting from the Artemis II launch were more significant than any caused by other rocket launches to date.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Such disturbances could become more problematic as powerful rocket launches become more frequent, Lin told the publication.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of disturbances
Noun
  • The elastic waistband and relaxed silhouette are as comfy as sweats but more edgy and pulled together.
    — Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2026
  • On Monday, Powlis stood before Judge Elizabeth Shamahs with a dispassionate look on his goateed face, dressed in a black fleece, black sweats and navy New Balance sneakers.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of sweats
Noun
  • Over the past year, men’s ski jumping has been marred by Norway’s cheating scandal and more recent genital manipulation rumors, which has become one of the early commotions of the Milano-Cortina Games.
    — Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 8 Feb. 2026
Definition of commotions
Noun
  • On the title track Chen reaches for the psaltery (a kind of zither without frets), creating a meandering, medieval atmosphere whose ubiquitous electronic background buzz foreshadows the biting screams and blistering bass to come.
    — James Gui, Pitchfork, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Khn plays a custom double-neck guitar-bass with twice the usual number of frets on each side, looping the two halves together in real time with foot pedals.
    — Josh Martin, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of frets
Noun
  • Refrigerated pie crust helps this pie come together with just a few stirs of the whisk.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of stirs
Noun
  • There’s some clear compression going on that doesn’t leave my voice anywhere close to broadcast quality, but at least folks on the other end of a call won’t be trying to parse my voice from all the noises around me.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The president has occasionally made noises about making deals, but the political incentives ahead of the 2028 presidential election are for both sides to dig in.
    — Matt Peterson, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of noises
Noun
  • About two couples, connected and dependent on one another, raising their kids alongside each other, facing the same turmoils, the same existential questions.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Mayer and Strong offer a broad pop-history lesson, in which the same tensions and turmoils churn on and on in their terrible cycle throughout the decades; the only thing that’s changed are the aesthetics.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of turmoils
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