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shit-stir en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, slang, vulgar) A deliberately provoked uproar.
    • She's caused a shit-stir in the house and it's just time to go. 2018 September 12, Daniel Rutledge, “The Bachelor Australia S06E08: Mean girl squad gets obliterated in most dramatic episode yet”, in Newshub:
    • I knew it was going to be a shit-stir, but what I didn't expect was that we would get pulled off stands in supermarkets. 2006, Catherine Hanger, Switched on, page 182:
    • I would've felt like an idiot saying "Oh, my mate was just making it up as a shit stir. He always does that!" 1997, Paul Freeman, Ian Roberts: Finding Out, page 125:

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shit-stir en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive, slang, vulgar) To stir shit.
    • "Has Suren seen this?" Hunter happily and maliciously shit-stirred through the phone. 2012, Aaron Overfield, Veil:
    • You can't possibly shit-stir with people that are desperate, people that are hungry because of the very corruption you talked about in the earlier part of your speech - the part that I liked, the part I fully supported. 2008, Deirdre Osborne, Hidden Gems, page 137:
    • You should really shit-stir and wear the Cat Suits to States. That would give them something to growl about . . . only joking — don't do anything that could wreck your chances! 2000, Katy Watson, Juice, page 171:
  2. (idiomatic, slang, transitive, vulgar) To provoke; to deliberately upset.
    • If you knew my suburb you'd know there wasn't anything much to do other than hang around on street corners and shit-stir each other. 2005, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Stories:
    • Not unless he got one just to shit-stir you. 2010, J J Cooper, The Interrogator:
    • Ross has always had the decency to abuse and shit-stir him and call him Grumpy. 2004, Meanjin - Volume 63, Issues 3-4, page 229:

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shit-stirred Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shit-stirred Tense=Past lexicographic
shit-stirring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
shit-stirs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic