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stirrer-up

stirrer-up noun: one who creates a stir or stirs up trouble.

Noun

stirrer-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

Forms of stirrer-up

pluralstirrers-up

Questions about stirrer-up

What does stirrer-up mean?
Stirrer-up means one who creates a stir or stirs up trouble.
What part of speech is stirrer-up?
Stirrer-up is a noun.
What is the plural of stirrer-up?
The plural of stirrer-up is stirrers-up.

Words near stirrer-up in the dictionary

  1. stirred up the animals
  2. stirred-curd cheese
  3. stirred-curd cheeses
  4. stirredst
  5. stirrer
  6. stirrer-up
  7. stirrers
  8. stirrers-up
  9. stirrest
  10. stirreth
  11. stirrin'

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