Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who stirs; especially, one who is active or bustling.
- n. One who stirs or agitates anything, as a liquid, with the hand or an implement for stirring.
- n. An implement or a machine used for stirring a liquid or the like.
- n. One who incites or instigates; an instigator: often with up: as, a stirrer up of contention.
Wiktionary
- n. A device used to stir.
- n. A person who stirs something.
- n. slang A person who spreads rumours or causes agitation.
- n. One who stirs or moves about, as after sleep.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble
- n. an implement used for stirring
Examples
“They want this college grad to follow in their dad's footsteps and work as a "stirrer" for Honex, where all the bees in New Hive City have worked for millions of years, without a single day's vacation.”
“Inside the inner kettle is a "stirrer," a revolving arm attached at right angles to a vertical shaft.”
“The apples should be put on to cook as early in the morning as possible and cooked slowly over not too hot a fire, being stirred constantly with a long-handled "stirrer" with small perforated piece of wood on one end.”
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"
“And even today nobody, besides that TOI piece that happens to have a number of other movies perhaps critically acclaimed but hardly a s "stirrer" of any kind in its era.”
“To overcome this, Mr. Muntner inserts a thin straw — a hollow coffee-stirrer works well — into the hole.”
“By Darkman, February 17, 2010 @ 11: 28 am wanna be a professional shit-stirrer and this is the blowback ..”
“Ma and Grace and Mary Catherine like to think Tessa is the Chief Trouble Maker, but Tessa sees Pa knows: Yllis is a pot stirrer.”
“Nasim tapped a plastic stirrer against the tabletop.”
“Yummy leaned over toward me with the stirrer from her drink still between the lips of her peach-glossed mouth.”
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