stir¹ /stûr/ (Scot steer /stēr/, Spenser stire or styre /stīr/)

1. To set in motion
2. To move around
3. To move (something, esp in liquid or powder form) around by continuous or repeated, usu circular, movements of a spoon or other implement through it, eg in order to mix its constituents
4. To disturb
5. To rouse
6. To move to activity
7. To excite
8. To move, raise, moot (eg a question) (now rare)

1. To make a movement
2. To begin to move
3. To be able to be stirred
4. To go about
5. To be active or excited
6. (esp in prp) to be out of bed
7. To go forth
8. To cause trouble or dissension (informal)

1. Movement
2. Slight movement
3. Activity
4. Commotion
5. Sensation
6. An act of stirring

stirˈless adjective

Without stir

stirred adjective

stirrˈer noun

1. A person who or thing that stirs
2. A person that stirs up trouble, a troublemaker (informal)

stirrˈing noun and adjective

stirrˈingly adverb

stirˈabout noun (Anglo-Irish)

1. Porridge
2. A bustle or commotion
3. A bustling person

adjective

Busy, active

stirˈ-fry transitive verb and intransitive verb

To fry (food) rapidly while stirring it in the pan

noun

A dish so prepared

stir abroad, forth or out (old or dialect)

To go out of doors

stir up

1. To excite
2. To incite
3. To arouse
4. To mix by stirring

stir² /stûr/, stirrah or stirra /stirˈə/ (Scot)

Apparently corruptions of sir and sirrah, applied to both sexes

stir³ /stûr/ (slang)

Prison

stir-crāˈzy adjective (N American)

Unbalanced from confinement, esp in prison

• on the stroke of
• on the stump
• on the take
• on the tapis
• on the tiddly
• on the tight side
• on the tiles
• on the tip of one's tongue
• on the town
• on the trot
• on the turn
• on the up
• on the up and up
• on the verge of
• on the wagon
• on the wallaby
• on the wallaby track
• on the warpath
• on the watch
• on the way out
• on the whole
• on the windy side
• on the wing
• on the wings of the wind
• on the wrong side of the blanket