stir one's stumps in English

Forms: stirs one's stumps [present, singular, third-person], stirring one's stumps [participle, present], stirred one's stumps [participle, past], stirred one's stumps [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} stir one's stumps (third-person singular simple present stirs one's stumps, present participle stirring one's stumps, simple past and past participle stirred one's stumps)

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stirs one's stumps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirring one's stumps",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirred one's stumps",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirred one's stumps",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stir one's stumps (third-person singular simple present stirs one's stumps, present participle stirring one's stumps, simple past and past participle stirred one's stumps)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get going; to move one's legs in walking or running."
      ],
      "id": "en-stir_one's_stumps-en-verb-xRAQVI0z",
      "links": [
        [
          "get going",
          "get going"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To get going; to move one's legs in walking or running."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stir one's stumps"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stirs one's stumps",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirring one's stumps",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirred one's stumps",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stirred one's stumps",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stir one's stumps (third-person singular simple present stirs one's stumps, present participle stirring one's stumps, simple past and past participle stirred one's stumps)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English slang",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To get going; to move one's legs in walking or running."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "get going",
          "get going"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To get going; to move one's legs in walking or running."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stir one's stumps"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (74c5344 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"stir one's stumps" meaning in English

Verb