different between clatter vs stir
clatter
English
Etymology
From Middle English clatren (“to make a rattling sound”), from Old English *clatrian (attested as the Late Old English gerund clatrung), of onomatopoeic origin.
The noun, derived from the verb, is first attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?klæt?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?klæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?(?)
- Hyphenation: clat?ter
Verb
clatter (third-person singular simple present clatters, present participle clattering, simple past and past participle clattered)
- (intransitive) To make a rattling sound.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard,
- And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred;
- He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
- But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,
- Bess, the landlord's daughter,
- Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
- 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:
- (transitive) To cause to make a rattling noise.
- 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy
- You clatter still your brazen kettle.
- 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Chapter V:
- When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...
- 1728, Jonathan Swift, A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy
- (intransitive) To chatter noisily or rapidly.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- But if that I knewe what his name hight,
For clatering of me I would him ?one quight;
For his fal?e lying, of that I ?pake never,
I could make him ?hortly repent him forever: […]
- But if that I knewe what his name hight,
- I see thou dost but clatter.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- (Northern England) To hit; to smack.
- 1988, Harry Enfield, Friday Night Live:
- "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”
- 2010, Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till:
- “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.
- 1988, Harry Enfield, Friday Night Live:
Derived terms
- clatterer
- clattering
- clatteringly
Translations
Noun
clatter (plural clatters)
- A rattling noise; a repetition of abrupt, sharp sounds.
- A loud disturbance.
- Noisy talk or chatter.
Synonyms
- commotion
- racket
Derived terms
- clattery
Translations
Further reading
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “clatter”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
- clatter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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stir
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /st?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-Germanic *staurijan? (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
Verb
stir (third-person singular simple present stirs, present participle stirring, simple past and past participle stirred)
- (transitive) To incite to action
- Synonyms: arouse, instigate, prompt, excite; see also Thesaurus:incite
- (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, a liquid of suchlike, by passing something through it
- Synonym: agitate
- (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it.
- (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
- (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
- (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
- (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
- (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
- Synonyms: arise, get up, rouse; see also Thesaurus:wake
- “Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,” remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: “Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!”
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
Usage notes
- In all transitive senses except the dated one (“to change the place of in any manner”), stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
- agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
- .
- Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Derived terms
- cause a stir
- stirless
- upstir
Translations
Etymology 2
From Romani stariben (“prison”), nominalisation of (a)star (“seize”), causative of ast (“remain”), probably from Sanskrit ???????? (?ti??hati, “stand or remain by”), from ??????? (ti??hati, “stand”).
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- (slang) Jail; prison.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
- Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the five worst stirs in the United States.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
Derived terms
- stir-crazy
Anagrams
- ISTR, RTIs, Rist, TRIS, TRIs, Tris, rits, sirt, tris, tris-
Danish
Verb
stir
- imperative of stirre
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