Fuss vs. Stir

Fussnoun

Excessive activity, worry, bother, or talk about something.

‘They made a big fuss about the wedding plans.’; ‘What's all the fuss about?’;

Stirverb

(transitive) To incite to action

Fussnoun

A complaint or noise; a scene.

‘If you make enough of a fuss about the problem, maybe they'll fix it for you.’;

Stirverb

(transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate.

‘She stirred the pudding with a spoon.’;

Fussnoun

An exhibition of affection or admiration.

‘They made a great fuss over the new baby.’;

Stirverb

(transitive) To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it.

‘Would you please stand here and stir this pot so that the chocolate doesn't burn?’;

Fussverb

(intransitive) To be very worried or excited about something, often too much.

‘His grandmother will never quit fussing over his vegetarianism.’;

Stirverb

(transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.

Fussverb

(intransitive) To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust

‘Quit fussing with your hair. It looks fine.’;

Stirverb

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

Fussverb

To cry or be ill-humoured.

Stirverb

(intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.

Fussverb

To show affection for, especially animals.

Stirverb

(intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.

Fussverb

(transitive) To pet.

‘He fussed the cat.’;

Stirverb

(intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.

Fussnoun

A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.

‘Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise’;

Stirverb

To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.

Fussnoun

One who is unduly anxious about trifles; a fussbudget.

‘I am a fuss and I don't deny it.’;

Stirnoun

The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

Fussverb

To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make a bustle or ado.

Stirnoun

Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

Fussnoun

an excited state of agitation;

‘he was in a dither’; ‘there was a terrible flap about the theft’;

Stirnoun

Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Fussnoun

an angry disturbance;

‘he didn't want to make a fuss’; ‘they had labor trouble’; ‘a spot of bother’;

Stirnoun

(slang) Jail; prison.

‘He's going to spendin' maybe ten years in stir.’;

Fussnoun

a quarrel about petty points

Stirverb

To change the place of in any manner; to move.

‘My foot I had never yet in five days been able to stir.’;

Fussnoun

a rapid bustling commotion

Stirverb

To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate; as, to stir a pudding with a spoon.

‘My mind is troubled, like a fountain stirred.’;

Fussverb

worry unnecessarily or excessively;

‘don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now’;

Stirverb

To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.

‘Stir not questions of jurisdiction.’;

Fussverb

care for like a mother;

‘She fusses over her husband’;

Stirverb

To incite to action; to arouse; to instigate; to prompt; to excite.

‘An Ate, stirring him to blood and strife.’; ‘And for her sake some mutiny will stir.’;

Stirverb

To move; to change one's position.

‘I had not power to stir or strive,But felt that I was still alive.’;

Stirverb

To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy one's self.

‘All are not fit with them to stir and toil.’; ‘The friends of the unfortunate exile, far from resenting his unjust suspicions, were stirring anxiously in his behalf.’;

Stirverb

To become the object of notice; to be on foot.

‘They fancy they have a right to talk freely upon everything that stirs or appears.’;

Stirverb

To rise, or be up, in the morning.

Stirnoun

The act or result of stirring; agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.

‘Why all these words, this clamor, and this stir?’; ‘Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.’;

Stirnoun

Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.

‘Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.’;

Stirnoun

Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.

Stirnoun

a disorderly outburst or tumult;

‘they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused’;

Stirnoun

emotional agitation and excitement

Stirnoun

a rapid bustling commotion

Stirverb

move an implement through with a circular motion;

‘stir the soup’; ‘stir my drink’;

Stirverb

move very slightly;

‘He shifted in his seat’;

Stirverb

stir feelings in;

‘stimulate my appetite’; ‘excite the audience’; ‘stir emotions’;

Stirverb

stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of;

‘These stories shook the community’; ‘the civil war shook the country’;

Stirverb

affect emotionally;

‘A stirring movie’; ‘I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy’;

Stirverb

evoke or call forth, with or as if by magic;

‘raise the specter of unemployment’; ‘he conjured wild birds in the air’; ‘stir a disturbance’; ‘call down the spirits from the mountain’;

Stirverb

to begin moving,

‘As the thunder started the sleeping children began to stir’;

Stirverb

mix or add by stirring;

‘Stir nuts into the dough’;

Stirverb

move a spoon or other implement round in (a liquid or other substance) in order to mix it thoroughly

‘pour in the cream and stir well’; ‘Desmond stirred his tea and ate a biscuit’;

Stirverb

mix an ingredient into (a liquid or other substance) by moving a spoon or other implement round and round

‘stir in the flour and cook gently for two minutes’;

Stirverb

move or cause to move slightly

‘nothing stirred except the wind’; ‘a gentle breeze stirred the leaves’; ‘cloudiness is caused by the fish stirring up mud’;

Stirverb

rise or wake from sleep

‘no one else had stirred yet’;

Stirverb

leave or go out of (a place)

‘as he grew older, he seldom stirred from his club’;

Stirverb

begin or cause to begin to be active or to develop

‘the 1960s, when the civil rights movement stirred’; ‘he even stirred himself to play an encore’; ‘a voice stirred her from her reverie’;

Stirverb

arouse strong feeling in (someone); move or excite

‘he stirred up the sweating crowd’; ‘they will be stirred to action by what is written’;

Stirverb

arouse or prompt (a feeling or memory) or inspire (the imagination)

‘the rumours had stirred up his anger’; ‘the story stirred many memories of my childhood’;

Stirverb

deliberately cause trouble by spreading rumours or gossip

‘Francis was always stirring, trying to score off people’;

Stirnoun

a slight physical movement

‘I stood, straining eyes and ears for the faintest stir’;

Stirnoun

an initial sign of a specified feeling

‘Caroline felt a stir of anger deep within her breast’;

Stirnoun

a commotion

‘the event caused quite a stir’;

Stirnoun

an act of stirring food or drink

‘he gives his Ovaltine a stir’;

Stirnoun

prison

‘I've spent twenty-eight years in stir’;