• IPA: /ʌpˈspɹɪŋ/

upspring (upsprings, present participle upspringing; past upsprang, past participle upsprung)

1. (intransitive) To spring up, rise up, originate, come into being.
   • , Historical Tales

     Might not its waters upspring in this new land, whose discovery was the great marvel of the age, and which men looked upon as the unknown east of Asia?

• (spring up) spring, spring up, sprout, arise, be born, come into existence; see also Thesaurus:come into being

• IPA: /ˈʌpspɹɪŋ/

upspring (plural upsprings)

1. (obsolete) An upstart.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:

     the swaggering upspring

2. A spring or leap into the air.
3. origin

• (upstart) parvenu, upstart
• (a spring or leap into the air) bound, jump, leap, spring