shit-stir

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English

Verb

shit-stir (third-person singular simple present shit-stirs, present participle shit-stirring, simple past and past participle shit-stirred)

  1. (slang, idiomatic, vulgar, intransitive) To stir shit.
    • 2000, Katy Watson, Juice, page 171:
      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!
    • 2008, Deirdre Osborne, Hidden Gems, page 137:
      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.
    • 2012, Aaron Overfield, Veil:
      "Has Suren seen this?" Hunter happily and maliciously shit-stirred through the phone.
  2. (slang, idiomatic, vulgar, transitive) To provoke; to deliberately upset.
    • 2004, Meanjin - Volume 63, Issues 3-4, page 229:
      Ross has always had the decency to abuse and shit-stir him and call him Grumpy.
    • 2005, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Stories:
      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.
    • 2010, J J Cooper, The Interrogator:
      Not unless he got one just to shit-stir you.

Noun

shit-stir (plural shit-stirs)

  1. (slang, idiomatic, vulgar) A deliberately provoked uproar.
    • 1997, Paul Freeman, Ian Roberts: Finding Out, page 125:
      I would've felt like an idiot saying "Oh, my mate was just making it up as a shit stir. He always does that!"
    • 2006, Catherine Hanger, Switched on, page 182:
      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.
    • 2018 September 12, Daniel Rutledge, “The Bachelor Australia S06E08: Mean girl squad gets obliterated in most dramatic episode yet”, in Newshub:
      She's caused a shit-stir in the house and it's just time to go.

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