Meaning of flother | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A miry bog.
   Northumbria, countable, uncommon
2. A state of agitation or disarray, a lather.
   rare, uncountable

Examples

“They lived in Flother (as Flodder Hall was formerly known).”

“[…] flothers […] The Flothers”

“Flothers, near Slaley […] f. houses and land⟳, Flothers”

“[…] the homesteads and hamlets […] of Ryal or Ryehill, Pry, Flothers, Peel-flat, Comb-hills, Swangs, Cocklake, Palmstrothers, Black Strothers, […]”

“[…] by a horse Gin and Pit 13 fms. deep (South of Flothers Wood). West of Pilmuir Wood it was also worked by an Engine Pit 11 fms . deep , but the workings were abandoned owing to heavy water , without a plan⟳ having been made.”

“FLODDER BECK (affluent of the Mint in Docker, SD 59 SE), 1857 OS. Probably, like⟳ Flodder Hall and Flodder(s) (i, 83, 130, ii, 41, infra), and Brackenber Flodders (ii, 104 infra), from a dial. form⟳ of flother, fludder, which may well be from an OE *flōdor 'channel' suggested for the 12th-century Floder (YW iv, 86). […] Flother 1704, 1710 PR, from OE *flōdor 'channel' as in Flodder Beck (i, 7 supra).”

“The Flothers, near Slaley, however, takes its name⟳ from a Swamp, that is to say⟳ where water flows over, [...]”

“[…] Flot(t)erker 1430, Flotter Carr 1580, … 'marsh with or near a water-channel', v. *flōdor, ker, cf. ModE dial flother 'swamp, a boggy place⟳ liable to overflow in wet⟳ seasons', very common in f.ns. in Northumberland, e.g. Robinson Flothers, Henshaw, […]”

“Ye windy, rhymin', bleth'rin hash, Ye'll tak in woo' to card to trash; [...] Ye rhyme 'bout thrums an' wabs thegither, A hotchy potchy in a flother.”

“She sat by the fire; the ash—of the note⟳ book to Patrick—lay⟳ in a flother on the hot bricks.”

“So if you lose⟳ your way, notes like⟳ these are worse than useless, and are likely [to] set⟳ you off into a flother of paper shuffling and awkwardness.”

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