| 单词 | to keep a stir |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep a stir 3. Commotion, disturbance, tumult; general excitement; fuss. Now usually with a; the plural, now rare, was formerly common, esp. in the sense ‘publick disturbance, tumultuous disorder’ (Johnson), riot, insurrection. Phrase, †to keep a stir. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] riot1400 tumult1412 misgovernail?a1439 rout1439 revel1462 tumultuationc1475 stir1487 rangat?a1513 rangale1513 turmoil1526 ruffle1532 confusion1555 disorder1558 roaring1617 mayhem1976 society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > political unrest > [noun] stirringa1154 motiona1387 troublec1435 misrule1442 commotion1471 stir1487 misgovernment1565 welteringa1586 confusions1599 distemper1605 distemperature?1606 convulsion1643 unsettlement1649 upturning1846 upturn1864 the natives are restless1950 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] winOE torpelness?c1225 disturbance1297 workc1325 disturblingc1330 farec1330 frapec1330 disturbing1340 troublingc1340 blunderc1375 unresta1382 hurling1387 perturbationc1400 turbationc1400 rumblec1405 roara1413 rumourc1425 sturblance1435 troublec1435 stroublance1439 hurlc1440 hurly-burlyc1440 ruffling1440 stourc1440 rumblingc1450 sturbancec1450 unquietness?c1450 conturbationc1470 ruption1483 stir1487 wanrufe?a1505 rangat?a1513 business1514 turmoil1526 blommera1529 blunderinga1529 disturbation1529 bruyllie1535 garboil1543 bruslery1546 agitation1547 frayment1549 turmoiling1550 whirl1552 confusion1555 troublesomeness1561 rule1567 rummage1575 rabble1579 tumult1580 hurlement1585 rabblement1590 disturb1595 welter1596 coil1599 hurly1600 hurry1600 commotion1616 remotion1622 obturbation1623 stirrance1623 tumultuation1631 commoving1647 roiling1647 spudder1650 suffle1650 dissettlement1654 perturbancy1654 fermentationa1661 dissettledness1664 ferment1672 roil1690 hurry-scurry1753 vortex1761 rumpus1768 widdle1789 gilravagea1796 potheration1797 moil1824 festerment1833 burly1835 fidge1886 static1923 comess1944 frammis1946 bassa-bassa1956 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > instance of viretotec1386 moving?a1439 reela1450 stir1487 songa1500 pirrie1536 hurly-burly1548 make-a-do1575 confusions1599 the hunt is upa1625 ruffle1642 fuss1701 fraction1721 fizza1734 dust1753 noration1773 steeriea1776 splorea1791 rook1808 piece of work1810 curfuffle1813 squall1813 rookerya1820 stushie1824 shindy1829 shine1832 hurroosh1836 fustle1839 upsetting1847 shinty1848 ructions1862 vex1862 houp-la1870 set-out1875 hoodoo1876 tingle-tangle1880 shemozzle1885 take-on1893 dust-up1897 hoo-ha1931 tra-la-la1933 gefuffle1943 tzimmes1945 kerfuffle1946 α. singular. plural.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. v. f. 27v The Leauetenaunt asked hym what al these sturres and tumultes ment.1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. v. 85 His Apostles are not breeders of stirs and mutinies, they are messengers sent to make peace.1650 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. (1654) i. 26 They never intended any stirs or rebellions against the Empire.1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified 209 Great Stirs between the Popes and the old Dukes of Ferrara.1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. iv. 86 He complained so seldom, indeed, of such stirs as these, that I really thought him not vindictive.1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) IV. xx. 531 The stirs [1871 commotions] which were soon to arise on the side of Maine, Anjou, and Brittany.1896 S. R. Crockett Grey Man xl. 268 Thrusting myself into all the stirs and quarrels.β. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 344 Swa that the host wes all on steir.c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7398 The stere was full stithe; þere starf mony knightes.1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) ii. 112 Syne eftir denner raiss the din, And all the toun on steir.1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. x. 196 Brother, allace, had ȝe bene heir, I had not cum in all this sturt and steir.1728 A. Ramsay Step-daughter 8 My Step-dame..keeps the hale House in a steer.1873 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold (new ed.) vi Annie's grandmother, a bairn then, was in the thick of the steer.1912 R. M. Fergusson Ochil Fairy Tales 45 A terrible steer got up among the ponies, that began jumping about like mad beasts.a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Ei Her syster Anne, spryteles for dread to heare Thys fearefull sturre, wyth nayles gan teare her face. 1549 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 168 If you forsake to come to this..peaxable agrement,..the inconveniences which may ensue upon stirre must grow of yow. 1557 M. Basset tr. T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1390/1 Sundry matters as in such a sodain styrre very sore perplexed theim. 1579 J. Field tr. J. Calvin Serm. i. 8 But what a blundering and stirre keepe they heere? 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre ii. 112 Being then at their wits end, they kept a stirre at Pericles. 1655 R. Baxter Quakers Catech. 19 Your Prater also made a stirre with me for calling the sacred Languages the Originall. 1678 C. Trenchfield Fathers Counsel (ed. 2) 17 There are many things we make no small stir about. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. ii. viii. 90 Glaucus, who used to say, that Statesmen and Lawgivers may keep a stir about right and wrong, just and unjust, but that, in truth [etc.]. 1782 W. Cowper Mutual Forbearance in Poems 21 For one slight trespass all this stir? 1807 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 23 I'm as great as they, I trow, Since the day I found thee out, Little flower!—I'll make a stir Like a great Astronomer. 1847 G. P. R. James Convict xiv The Chartists are making a great stir about here just now. 1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay viii. 126 He always came to the front when there was any stir in the Lambert affair. < as lemmas |
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