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• n  a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble
• n  an implement used for stirring

• Immersed in liquid, the stirrer gives off enough fumeless heat to bring a cup of water to the boiling point.
• Dean of French literary stirrer-uppers is scrawny, deaf, 71-year-old Charles Maurras, libeling editor for 41 years of the Royalist-Catholic Action Francaise.
• Through those sometimes long evenings, Boies will surreptitiously drop a plastic stirrer into his jacket pocket as he lifts each Ketel One screwdriver.

• scaremonger

News & Articles

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• Forget 'The Challenge,' We've Got Three Post-'Portland' Job Prospects For Nia
  By Natalie Goode-Henry Now that Portland (and Pizza Schmizza) has had a chance to recover from Hurricane Nia, we have to wonder what'll become of our beloved hothead. Though "Rivals II" would have been the perfect place for such a s**t-stirrer to make her "Challenge" debut, Nia's post-"Real World" plans seem to be straying off the beaten [...]
  June 26, 2013 - MTV

Quotes

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• Shane Warne in guardian.co.uk
  Duncan Fletcher is a bit of a stirrer,said Warne.
• Bill English in Stuff.co.nz
  Bill English described Hager as "a left-wing stirrer".
• Martin Amis in Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
  People like Eagleton are the nearest thing we have to the 'iron mullahs': he is, in other words, a deluded flailer and stirrer,Amis writes.