upstir

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English

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Etymology

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From up- +‎ stir.

Noun

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upstir (plural upstirs)

  1. 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[1], 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[2], retrieved 2012-06-03:
      Needless to say, this has caused quite an upstir with people []

Verb

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upstir (third-person singular simple present upstirs, present participle upstirring, simple past and past participle upstirred)

  1. To disturb, cause a commotion, stir up.
    • 1876, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Ishmael In the Depths[3], digitized edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:
      And conscience to upstir him []
    • 1994, The Arizona Quarterly: Vol 50[4], Univ. of Arizona, page 100:
      [] upstirring of the modern democrat against the aristocrat []

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