upstir

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ stir.

Noun

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

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 […]

References

• “upstir”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• purist, spruit, stir up, tripus, uprist