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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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- what stores are open near me
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stig
English
Etymology
Believed to have originated from the eponymous character in the book Stig of the Dump (Clive King, Puffin, 1963, ?ISBN.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st??/
Noun
stig (plural stigs)
- (Britain, derogatory) Someone from a poor background, with poor dress sense.
Synonyms
See chav.
Anagrams
- GTis, ISTG, gist, gits, tigs
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sti?j/
Noun
stig n (genitive singular stigs, plural stig)
- pace
- stair, rung
- (dance) step
- niveau, level
- degree (Celsius etc.)
- (sports) score
Declension
Synonyms
- (pace): fet, fótafet, gongd
- (dancing step): stev, fótastig
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st???/
- Rhymes: -???
Noun
stig n (genitive singular stigs, nominative plural stig)
- level
- degree
- stage
- point (unit of scoring in a game or competition)
- (baseball, cricket) run
Declension
Synonyms
- (level): staða
- (degree): gráða
- (stage): áfangi
Derived terms
- á þessu stigi, á þessu stigi málsins
- á háu stigi
- öryggisstig (security level)
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
stig
- imperative of stige
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse stígr.
Noun
stig m (definite singular stigen, indefinite plural stigar, definite plural stigane)
- alternative form of sti
Etymology 2
Verb
stig
- present tense of stige
- imperative of stige
Etymology 3
Noun
stìg n (definite singular stìget, indefinite plural stìg, definite plural stìgi)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 1917; superseded by steg
References
- “stig” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *st?g?, from *st?gan? (“climb”) ( > Old English st?gan). Cognate with Middle Dutch stige, Old High German stiga. A masculine Germanic variant *st?gaz is indicated by Old High German stic (German Steig), Old Norse stígr (Swedish stig).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sti?j/
Noun
st?? f (nominative plural st??a or st??e)
- path (especially steep or narrow)
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: sty
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *stij?. Cognate with Old Norse stí (Danish sti).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stij/
Noun
sti? n (nominative plural sti?)
- hall, building, sty
Declension
Derived terms
- st?gweard (“steward”)
Descendants
- Middle English: sty
- English: sty
Old Norse
Etymology
Related to stíga.
Noun
stig n
- step, pace
- step (of a ladder)
- (plural only) degree, rank
Declension
Descendants
- Icelandic: stig
- Norwegian Nynorsk: steg
- Norwegian Bokmål: steg
References
- stig in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sti??/
- Rhymes: -i??
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish st?gher, from Old Norse stígr, from Proto-Germanic *st?gu- or Proto-Germanic *st?gi-.Cognate with Danish sti and German Steig.Related to Swedish stiga.See also Old English stig.
Noun
stig c
- path, trail
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
stig
- imperative of stiga.
Anagrams
- tigs
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