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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