Fic - Witness (7/8)

Title: Witness (7/8)
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Dean, Sam, Missouri, Bobby
Pairing: None
Spoilers: None that I can think of yet
Wordcount: 2213 (this chapter)
Summary: What should have been a routine job goes wrong, and Sam and Dean's lives may never be the same again.

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( Part 7 )

Wow

I have just learned that the word 'puther' is not a normal English word, but a piece of Yorkshire dialect. I used it in a fic, and the spellchecker didn't like it. Extensive googling revealed very few examples of the word online, which confused me, because I was hoping just to find out had misspelled it so badly the spell checker didn't understand. Nope. One site, only one that I have found, has record of it. The definition it gives is:

Puther: to make clouds of smoke or dust

So my dilemma is, how do I translate the word in my story, where I have written "A thick black smoke puthers from the candle."? I think I'll just leave it, but if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. None of the other words I can think of have exactly the same feeling, somehow.

Anyway, in a completely unrelated subject, new Red Dwarf is on tonight! I am so excited!