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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 […]
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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