trouble-monger

Noun

trouble-monger (plural trouble-mongers)

1. A troublemaker.
   • If the Queen had stood for any novel or fantastic imperial claims, the whole would have seemed a nightmare; the whole was successful because she stood, and no one could deny that she stood, for the humblest, the shortest and the most indestructible of human gospels, that when all troubles and...1903, G. K. Chesterton, Varied Types, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, pages 233–4
   • Lace said that Peter was not half so bad as people said, and certainly not a trouble-monger like that Yeller Elbert.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179