English

Noun

upstir

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 9780520050914, 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 ...

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