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adjective
1.
rousing, exciting, or thrilling: a stirring speech.
2.
moving, active, bustling, or lively: a stirring business.
noun Usually, stirrings.
3.
a mental impulse, sensation, or feeling: stirrings of hope.
4.
a small movement: the best thing she could do was to pretend that her husband's nocturnal stirrings didn't wake her
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Stirring
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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verb (used with object)
1.
to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
2.
to set in tremulous, fluttering, or irregular motion: A soft breeze stirred the leaves.
3.
to affect strongly; excite: to stir pity; to stir one's heart.
4.
to incite, instigate, or prompt (usually followed by up): to stir up a people to rebellion.
5.
EXPANDto move briskly; bestir: to stir oneself.
6.
to move, especially in a slight way: He would not stir a finger to help them.
7.
to rouse from inactivity, quiet, contentment, indifference, etc. (usually followed by up): to stir up his potential.
8.
to bring up for notice or discussion.
9.
COLLAPSEto disturb; trouble.
verb (used without object)
10.
to move, especially slightly or lightly: Not a leaf stirred.
11.
to move around, especially briskly; be active: Everyone in the house was stirring.
12.
to become active, as from some rousing or quickening impulse.
13.
to be emotionally moved or strongly affected.
14.
to be in circulation, current, or afoot: Is there any news stirring?
noun
15.
the act of stirring or moving.
16.
the sound made by stirring or moving slightly.
17.
a state or occasion of general excitement; commotion: The news created a stir.
18.
a mental impulse, sensation, or feeling: a stir of hope.
19.
EXPANDa jog, poke, or thrust: He gave the refuse a stir with his foot.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English stiren (v.), Old English styrian; cognate with German stören; akin to Old Norse styrr disturbance; see storm
before 900; Middle English stiren (v.), Old English styrian; cognate with German stören; akin to Old Norse styrr disturbance; see storm
Related forms
stir·ra·ble, adjective
stir·less, adjective
stir·less·ly, adverb
un·stir·ra·ble, adjective
un·stirred, adjective
EXPANDwell-stirred, adjective
COLLAPSESynonyms
1. disturb. 4. rouse, foment, arouse, provoke, stimulate, goad, spur. 17. fuss, pother, agitation, disorder, uproar. See ado. 20. bustle,
1. disturb. 4. rouse, foment, arouse, provoke, stimulate, goad, spur. 17. fuss, pother, agitation, disorder, uproar. See ado. 20. bustle,
Antonyms
17. quiet.
17. quiet.
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Word Origin & History
stir
O.E. styrian, from P.Gmc. *sturjanan (cf. M.Du. stoeren, Du. storen "to disturb," O.H.G. storan "to scatter, destroy," Ger. stören "to disturb"), probably from the root of storm (q.v.). The noun sense of "commotion, disturbance, tumult" (late 14c., in phrase on steir)
EXPANDis probably from O.N. styrr "disturbance, tumult" (see storm), from the same P.Gmc. root; the sense of "movement, bustle" is probably from the Eng. verb. Stir-fry (v.) is attested from 1959.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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