stirrer
English
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edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɜːɹə/
- (General American) enPR: stûrʹər, IPA(key): /ˈstɝɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɜːɹə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: stir‧rer
Noun
editstirrer (plural stirrers)
- A device used to stir. (Cardinal types include wood or plastic strips (for beverages) and magnetic objects that react to a spinning magnet nearby (for chemistry beakers).
- Hyponyms: champagne stirrer, magnetic stirrer, swizzle stick
- We're out of coffee stirrers again and I'm not using my finger!
- A person who stirs something.
- The stirrers in the chocolate factory often get chocolate all over their uniforms.
- (slang) A person who spreads rumours or causes agitation.
- Synonyms: pot stirrer; see also Thesaurus:troublemaker
- Near-synonyms: (vulgar) shit-stirrer, shit disturber, shitmonger
- Why would you say something so hurtful? God, you are such a stirrer!
- One who stirs or moves about, as after sleep.
- I heard some early stirrers in the kitchen at dawn, but I saw no reason to get up yet.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 3:
- An early stirrer, by the rood!
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