Definition of "pudder" []

• A confused noise; turmoil; bustle; tumult. (noun)

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• "When it is considered what a pudder is made about essences, and how much all sorts of knowledge, discourse, and conversation are pestered and disordered by the careless and confused use and application of words, it will perhaps be thought worth while thoroughly to lay it open."
• "Gentle critick! when thou hast weighed all this, and considered within thyself how much of thy own knowledge, discourse, and conversation has been pestered and disordered, at one time or other, by this, and this only: — What a pudder and racket in"
• "If he is to live and be happy after, if he could sustain this world’s burden after, why all this pudder and preparation, —why torment us with all this unnecessary sympathy?"