to roil

1) To render turbid by stirring up the sediment;

2) To make angry. Provincial in England and colloquial in the United States.--Worcester. In both countries it is now commonly pronounced and written rile.

John was a-dry, and soon cried out--

Goon git some beer we 'ool!

He'd so to wait, it made him riled,

The booths were all shock full.--J. Noakes and Mary Styles.

I won't say your country or my country, and then it won't rile nobody.--Sam Slick in England.

I hope you won't be riled at what I say.--Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 63.

I tell you what, I was monstrous riled t'other day when I got a letter from Crockett, calling me hard names and abusin' me.--Ibid. p. 90.

No doubt existed in the minds of Mr. Dobbs's fellow-boarders, that the well of his good spirits had been riled.--Neat's Charcole Sketches.