upstir
English
Etymology
From up- + stir.
Noun
upstir (plural upstirs)
- Commotion; disturbance, tumult.
- 1549, John Cheke, The Hurt of Sedition:
- But yee […] ought to be like sheep to your King, who ought to be like a Shepheard unto you, even in the time when your profit was sought, and better redresse was intended then your upstirres and unquietnesse could obtaine […]
- 1983, Marcus Garvey, Robert Hill, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Univ. of Calif. Press, →ISBN, page 390:
- The world is now in an upstir because this association is about to hold its great convention in New York City
- 2006 December 20, Michael Arrington, quoting Fredrik, “I Wish Google Could Buy AllofMP3”, in TechCrunch, retrieved 2012-06-03:
- Needless to say, this has caused quite an upstir with people […]
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Verb
upstir (third-person singular simple present upstirs, present participle upstirring, simple past and past participle upstirred)
- To disturb, cause a commotion, stir up.
- 1876, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Ishmael In the Depths, digitized edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:
- And conscience to upstir him […]
- 1994, The Arizona Quarterly: Vol 50, Univ. of Arizona, page 100:
- […] upstirring of the modern democrat against the aristocrat […]
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References
- upstir in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- purist, spruit, stir up, tripus, uprist