Meaning

4 senses
  1. 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).

    We're out of coffee stirrers again and I'm not using my finger!

  2. A person who stirs something.

    The stirrers in the chocolate factory often get chocolate all over their uniforms.

    a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble

  3. (slang)A person who spreads rumours or causes agitation.

    Near-synonyms: (vulgar) shit-stirrer, shit disturber, shitmonger

    Why would you say something so hurtful? God, you are such a stirrer!

  4. 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.

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Sports journalists are nothing but professional ragebaiters and shit stirrers.

    ruСпортивные журналисты в своей профессии только и умеют, что провоцировать и баламутить воду. — Ooneykcall

  2. The government has banned disposal plastic items such as straws and coffee stirrers.

Forms

plural: stirrers
Singularstirrer
Pluralstirrers

regular

Synonyms

72 synonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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