Anagrams of: POTHERING

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment

• a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)

• a native or resident of Minnesota

• any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops

• burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America

• burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

• a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• outstanding United States athlete (1887-1953)

• an excited state of agitation

• make upset or troubled

• make a fuss; be agitated

• electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

• (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

• electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear

• get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

• Okay; all right.