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stirabout|ˈstɜːrəbaʊt|
Also 9 stirrabout.
[f. verbal phrase stir about: see stir v. and about adv.]
1. a. Porridge made by stirring oatmeal (or occas. some other meal) in boiling water or milk. (Originally Anglo-Irish.)
1682Piers Descr. West-Meath (1770) 121 They..have to their meal one formal dish,..which some call, stirabout or hasty pudding, that is flour and milk boiled thick. 1708W. King Art of Cookery Let. ix. 149 Milk Porridge,..Flumary, Stir about, and the like. 1812M. Edgeworth Absentee xi, If your honour takes stirabout, an old hand will engage to make that to your liking, any way. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. viii, The boys, having previously had their appetites thoroughly taken away by stir-about and potatoes. 1843Thackeray Irish Sk.-bk. xiv, Look at them..over a bowl of stir-about. 1873E. Smith Foods 159 Maize..is very commonly made into pudding... It is now known in Ireland as Stirrabout, and in Italy as Polenta. 1894D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 102 One pint of stirabout made of Indian meal.
b. (See quot. 1828.)
1828Carr Craven Gloss., Stir-about, oatmeal and drippings stirr'd about in a frying pan. 1863Mrs. Gaskell Sylvia's L. xliv, I've made mysel' some stirabout for my supper.
c. fig. A bustle, a state of confusion.
1905E. Armstrong in Eng. Hist. Rev. Jan. 158 This guazzabuglio, this stirabout of republic within republic [sc. Siena]. 1915Times 28 May 9 The formation of this new office [the Ministry of Munitions] is the one outstanding fact in the political stirabout.
2. A bustling person.
1870J. Nicholson Idylls 54 She's sic a steer-about, sae fu' o' mirth an' fun. 1903Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 3/2 The ‘stir⁓about’ is not a popular person with his masters.
attrib.1837T. Hook Jack Brag i, Get a sensible, stir⁓about husband. |