astir
\ uh-STUR \ , adjective; Tweet
1.moving or stirring, especially with much activity or excitement: The field was astir with small animals, birds, and insects .
2.up and about; out of bed.
Quotes:
We were wakened by many hurrying feet, and many confused voices; all the world seemed awake and astir .
-- Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman , 1861
The feeling called love is and has been for two years the predominant emotion of my heart: always there, always awake, always astir : quite other feelings absorb his reflections, and govern his faculties.
-- Charlotte Brontë, Shirley , 1849
Origin:
Astir entered English before 1000, and is a combination of the reduced form a- and the word stir .
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