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单词 upstir
释义

upstirn.

Forms: Also 1500s upstirre, upsturre.
Etymology: up- prefix 1b + stir n.1 Compare Middle Danish opstyr, Norwegian uppstyr riot, tumult, disturbance.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈupstir.
Now dialect.
A disturbance or commotion.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > a disturbance or riot
stormOE
disturbance1297
disturblancec1330
riota1393
disturbation1529
ruffle1534
upstir1549
tumult1560
embroilment1609
hubbuba1625
embroil1636
ruction1809
uproaring1827
1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedition (1569) D j b Better redresse was entended, then your vpstirres and vnquietnesse coulde obtaine.
1550 J. Harington tr. Cicero Bk. Freendeship f. 26 Tiberius Graccus..made an vp sturre in the common wealth.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II
1849– in general dialect use ( Eng. Dial. Dict. ).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

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upstir
upstir v.
Brit. /ˌʌpˈstəː/
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U.S. /ˌəpˈstər/
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1833 E. B. Browning Stanzas Passage Emerson's Jrnl. vi As when the war-trump of the wind Upstirs our dark blue sea.
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