troublemaking

English

Etymology

From trouble +‎ making.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹʌb(ə)lmeɪkɪŋ/

Adjective

troublemaking (comparative more troublemaking, superlative most troublemaking)

1. Causing trouble.
   • 2005 April 10, Christopher Hitchens, “André Malraux: One Man's Fate”, in New York Times Book Review:

     Moving to Saignon in the mid-1920s, he helped to produce a troublemaking newspaper, L'Indochine, which ventilated the many complaints of the Vietnamese about forced labor, land expropriation, and police brutality.

Translations

causing trouble

• Maori: ahitere
• Scots: wanweirdly

Noun

troublemaking (usually uncountable, plural troublemakings)

1. Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
   • 2007 July 26, Anna Jane Grossman, “Is Junie B. Jones Talking Trash?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers.

Related terms

• troublemaker

Translations

causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way

• Finnish: rettelöinti
• Kazakh: бұзақылық (būzaqylyq)