stirrer-up

noun

One who creates a stir or stirs up trouble.

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Meanings

nounstirrer-up (plural stirrers-up)

plural stirrers-up

  1. One who creates a stir or stirs up trouble.

    He also revelled in controversy and was a great mischief-maker and stirrer-up of trouble[.]

    1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 90
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