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Skirred vs Stirred - What's the difference?

skirred | stirred |

As verbs the difference between skirred and stirred

is that skirred is (skirr) while stirred is (stir).

skirred

English

Verb

(head)
  • (skirr)

    • skirr

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1851 , year_published=2006 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Frank Forester , title= , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= … while at the same moment, whir-r-r! up sprung a bevy of twenty quail, at least, startling me for the moment by the thick whirring of their wings, and skirring over the underwood right toward Archer. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1919 , year_published=2006 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=EJ Thompson , title=Beyond Baghdad , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Our left wing, when they occupied the hills, saw four or five hundred Turks 'skirr away' in one body, and the machine-gunners found a target. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1920 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=Thuvia, Maiden of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= ... but that they had no thought to let the thing go unnoticed was quickly evidenced by the skirring of motors upon the landing-stage and the quick shooting airward of a long-lined patrol boat. }}
  • To search about in, scour
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1851 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Washington Irving , title=Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=The gates of Granada once more poured forth legions of light scouring cavalry, which skirred the country up to the very gates of the Christian fortresses, sweeping off flocks and herds. }}
  • to pass over quickly, skim

    • Usage notes

    Often mistakenly used instead of skirl.

    References

    * Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 2003 * Oxford Dictionary Online, skirr

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A tern.
    • (Webster 1913)

    stirred

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stir)

    • Anagrams

    *

    stir

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) stiren, from (etyl) styrian, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (stirr)
  • To change the place of in any manner; to move.
  • *(rfdate), (Sir William Temple)
  • *:My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir .
  • (lb) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate.
  • :
  • *(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
  • *:My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred .
  • (lb) To agitate the content of (a container) by passing something through it.
  • :
  • (lb) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
  • *(rfdate), (Francis Bacon)
  • *:Stir not questions of jurisdiction.
  • (lb) To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.
  • *(rfdate) (Chaucer)
  • *:To stir men to devotion.
  • *(rfdate), (William Shakespeare)
  • *:An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.
  • *(rfdate), (John Dryden)
  • *:And for her sake some mutiny will stir .
  • *1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
  • *:That night he was almost too happy to sleep, and so much love stirred in his little sawdust heart that it almost burst.
  • (lb) To move; to change one’s position.
  • *(rfdate) (Byron)
  • *:I had not power to stir or strive, But felt that I was still alive.
  • (lb) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
  • *(rfdate) (Byron)
  • *:All are not fit with them to stir and toil.
  • *(rfdate) (Charles Merivale)
  • *:The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.
  • (lb) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
  • *(rfdate), (Isaac Watts)
  • *:They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears.
  • To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
  • *
  • *:"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! "
    • Usage notes
    * In all transitive senses except the first, (term) is often followed by (up) with an intensive effect; as, (term); (term).
    Synonyms
    * (to move) incite; awaken; rouse; animate; stimulate; excite; provoke.
    Derived terms
    * stir-fry * stirrer * stir up * straw that stirs the drink

    Noun

  • The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
  • * (rfdate), .
    • Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir ?
  • * (rfdate), .
    • ''Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
  • Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
  • * (rfdate), .
    • Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
  • Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

    • Etymology 2

    (en)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (lb) Jail; prison.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

    • Anagrams

    * * English ergative verbs ----