shit-stir

present singular third person shit-stirs · participle present shit-stirring · participle past shit-stirred · past shit-stirred

1. idiomaticintransitiveslangvulgarTo stir shit.

   "Has Suren seen this?" Hunter happily and maliciously shit-stirred through the phone.

   2012, Aaron Overfield, Veil

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   You should really shit-stir and wear the Cat Suits to States. That would give them something to growl about . . . only joking — don't do anything that could wreck your chances!

   2000, Katy Watson, Juice, page 171

   You can't possibly shit-stir with people that are desperate, people that are hungry because of the very corruption you talked about in the earlier part of your speech - the part that I liked, the part I fully supported.

   2008, Deirdre Osborne, Hidden Gems, page 137

2. idiomaticslangtransitivevulgarTo provoke; to deliberately upset.

   Not unless he got one just to shit-stir you.

   2010, J J Cooper, The Interrogator

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   Ross has always had the decency to abuse and shit-stir him and call him Grumpy.

   2004, Meanjin - Volume 63, Issues 3-4, page 229

   If you knew my suburb you'd know there wasn't anything much to do other than hang around on street corners and shit-stir each other.

   2005, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Stories

plural shit-stirs

1. idiomaticslangvulgarA deliberately provoked uproar.

   She's caused a shit-stir in the house and it's just time to go.

   2018 September 12, Daniel Rutledge, “The Bachelor Australia S06E08: Mean girl squad gets obliterated in most dramatic episode yet”, in Newshub

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   I would've felt like an idiot saying "Oh, my mate was just making it up as a shit stir. He always does that!"

   1997, Paul Freeman, Ian Roberts: Finding Out, page 125

   I knew it was going to be a shit-stir, but what I didn't expect was that we would get pulled off stands in supermarkets.

   2006, Catherine Hanger, Switched on, page 182