upstir

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ stir

Noun

upstir (plural upstirs)

  1. (obsolete) commotion; disturbance, tumult
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir John Cheke to this entry?)
    • 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 …

Verb

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

  1. 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 ...

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for upstir in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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