upsetter

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noun

One who upsets (something); a disrupter.

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Meanings

nounupsetter (plural upsetters)

plural upsetters

  1. One who upsets (something); a disrupter.

    And so were all Christians in Pliny's time, insane like others, and called not long after, followers of madness, upsetters of men, vicious innovators […]

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, , section 1
  2. A person or device that turns something upside down.
  3. artsA kind of forging machine that moves horizontally.

Origin

From upset + -er.

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APA

upsetter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upsetter

MLA

“upsetter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upsetter. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “upsetter,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upsetter.

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