stirrer

English

From stir +‎ -er.

stirrer (plural stirrers)

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).
Hyponyms: champagne stirrer, magnetic stirrer, swizzle stick

We're out of coffee stirrers again and I'm not using my finger!
A person who stirs something.
The stirrers in the chocolate factory often get chocolate all over their uniforms.
(slang) A person who spreads rumours or causes agitation.
Synonyms: pot stirrer; see also Thesaurus:troublemaker

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

Why would you say something so hurtful? God, you are such a stirrer!
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.
- c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 3:
  An early stirrer, by the rood!