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Feb 5, 2022 18:02
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English term
Get stirry
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colloquial expression
Hi All!
I have something like that:
“Listen, you guys,” Hawkeye said. “I’m serious. We’re all starting to get
stirry again. We need something to do. There’s that big guy named Vollmer
over in Supply played center for Nebraska. Jeeter was a second string
halfback at Oklahoma …”
Get stirry means get crazy?
I have something like that:
“Listen, you guys,” Hawkeye said. “I’m serious. We’re all starting to get
stirry again. We need something to do. There’s that big guy named Vollmer
over in Supply played center for Nebraska. Jeeter was a second string
halfback at Oklahoma …”
Get stirry means get crazy?
Responses
| 4 +7 | get crazy |
Yvonne Gallagher
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| 4 +1 | restless |
Petrus Maritz
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| 3 +1 | Get fidgety |
Wyoming (X)
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| 3 | get nervous (in a positive way) |
Kiet Bach
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Change log
Feb 5, 2022 18:09: writeaway changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Other" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "colloquial expression"
Responses
+7
5 mins
Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Ireland
Native in English
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English
Specializes in field
Ireland
right word, right place. everytime
Native in: English (Variants: Irish, UK, US, Canadian) 
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
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get crazy
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/stir-cra...
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To clarify for thiose others who have misconstrued the meaning here
stirry= stir crazy
Meaning of stir-crazy in English
stir-crazy
adjective informal
upset or angry because you have been prevented from going somewhere or doing something for a long time:
Stir-crazy originated as a word to describe a prisoner who became distraught after prolonged confinement. Stir is a 19th-century slang word for "prison" that some word historians have suspected to be from Romani stariben, of the same meaning. But a convincing argument of that origin has yet been made. Today, stir-crazy describes any person who has become restless, agitated, or anxious from being or feeling entrapped in some place.
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HERE it mean Hawkeye is fed up and feels he and the others have been confined (by their work) for too long and they need to go crazy and have some down time, to have fun. So he is suggesting getting a team together to have a game (of American football)
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Glad to have helped
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Note added at 1 day 19 hrs (2022-02-07 13:37:09 GMT) Post-grading
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To clarify for thiose others who have misconstrued the meaning here
stirry= stir crazy
Meaning of stir-crazy in English
stir-crazy
adjective informal
upset or angry because you have been prevented from going somewhere or doing something for a long time:
Stir-crazy originated as a word to describe a prisoner who became distraught after prolonged confinement. Stir is a 19th-century slang word for "prison" that some word historians have suspected to be from Romani stariben, of the same meaning. But a convincing argument of that origin has yet been made. Today, stir-crazy describes any person who has become restless, agitated, or anxious from being or feeling entrapped in some place.
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HERE it mean Hawkeye is fed up and feels he and the others have been confined (by their work) for too long and they need to go crazy and have some down time, to have fun. So he is suggesting getting a team together to have a game (of American football)
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+1
22 mins
Get fidgety
To be rest, or to use a more exaggerated expression, stir crazy.
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To be restless.
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To be restless.
4 hrs
get nervous (in a positive way)
The other team has got (gotten) 2 big-name players, so out team should be getting nervous (in a positive way) and "needs something to do", to prepare for the game.
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Typo: our team, not "out team".
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Typo: our team, not "out team".
+1
15 hrs
Petrus Maritz
Germany
Germany
Native in English
&
English
Works in field
Germany
Highly qualified, social sciences
Native in: English
Works in: English, German, Afrikaans, and 9 more.
restless
in the citation, "we need something to do," qualifies "get stirry". "starting to get stirry" again seems to be character specific speech, and descriptive . Saying "again" signifies they have been this way before.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Wyoming (X)
9 hrs
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