Bother
, i.e. pother (Hibernian). Halliwell gives us blother, which he says means to chatter idly.
⁂ The Irish bódhar (buaidhirt, trouble), or its cognate verb, to deafen, seems to be the original word.
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.