upstir

plural upstirs

1. Commotion; disturbance, tumult.

   Needless to say, this has caused quite an upstir with people […]

   2006 December 20, Michael Arrington, quoting Fredrik, “I Wish Google Could Buy AllofMP3”, in TechCrunch, retrieved 03 Jun 2012

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   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 […]

   1549, John Cheke, The Hurt of Sedition

   The world is now in an upstir because this association is about to hold its great convention in New York City

   1983, Marcus Garvey, Robert Hill, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Univ. of Calif. Press, →ISBN, page 390

present singular third person upstirs · participle present upstirring · participle past upstirred · past upstirred

1. To disturb, cause a commotion, stir up.

   And conscience to upstir him […]

   1876, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Ishmael In the Depths, digitized edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005

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   […] upstirring of the modern democrat against the aristocrat […]

   1994, The Arizona Quarterly: Vol 50, Univ. of Arizona, page 100