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stirrer-up

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Noun

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stirrer-up (plural stirrers-up)

  1. One who creates a stir or stirs up trouble.
    • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 90:
      He also revelled in controversy and was a great mischief-maker and stirrer-up of trouble[.]