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ˈpothery, a.
[f. pother n. + -y.]
1. Choking, stifling; close, sultry; also transf. Also puthery.
1696Whiston The. Earth iv. (1722) 365 That Pothery and Sultry..Weather..we usually now feel. 1846Landor Imag. Conv., Southey & L. Wks. 1853 II. 168/2 They [Shakspere's Sonnets] are hot and pothery; there is much condensation, little delicacy. 1855Mrs. Gaskell Let. Feb. (1966) 332 It is so puthery here, I can hardly walk.
2. dial. Of sheep: Giddy and liable to fall, through water on the brain.
Perh. a different word, related to potter v.
1839Holloway Dict. Provinc., A sheep which has water on the brain, which causes it to fall down, or move in a very weak, tottering, and uncertain manner is said to be pothery. |