See shit-stir in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for shit-stir meaning in English (3.8kB)
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "shit-stirs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shit-stirring",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shit-stirred",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shit-stirred",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "++"
},
"expansion": "shit-stir (third-person singular simple present shit-stirs, present participle shit-stirring, simple past and past participle shit-stirred)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2000, Katy Watson, Juice, page 171",
"text": "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!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Deirdre Osborne, Hidden Gems, page 137",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Aaron Overfield, Veil",
"text": "\"Has Suren seen this?\" Hunter happily and maliciously shit-stirred through the phone.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stir shit."
],
"id": "en-shit-stir-en-verb-Nzaqa3H5",
"links": [
[
"stir shit",
"stir shit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, idiomatic, vulgar, intransitive) To stir shit."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"intransitive",
"slang",
"vulgar"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Meanjin - Volume 63, Issues 3-4, page 229",
"text": "Ross has always had the decency to abuse and shit-stir him and call him Grumpy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Stories",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, J J Cooper, The Interrogator",
"text": "Not unless he got one just to shit-stir you.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To provoke; to deliberately upset."
],
"id": "en-shit-stir-en-verb-DjnUqNcq",
"links": [
[
"provoke",
"provoke"
],
[
"deliberate",
"deliberate"
],
[
"upset",
"upset"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, idiomatic, vulgar, transitive) To provoke; to deliberately upset."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"slang",
"transitive",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"word": "shit-stir"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "shit-stirs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shit-stir (plural shit-stirs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "61 16 23",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1997, Paul Freeman, Ian Roberts: Finding Out, page 125",
"text": "I would've felt like an idiot saying \"Oh, my mate was just making it up as a shit stir. He always does that!\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Catherine Hanger, Switched on, page 182",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 September 12, Daniel Rutledge, “The Bachelor Australia S06E08: Mean girl squad gets obliterated in most dramatic episode yet”, in Newshub",
"text": "She's caused a shit-stir in the house and it's just time to go.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An deliberately provoked uproar."
],
"id": "en-shit-stir-en-noun-2fNCn76r",
"links": [
[
"deliberate",
"deliberate"
],
[
"provoke",
"provoke"
],
[
"uproar",
"uproar"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, idiomatic, vulgar) An deliberately provoked uproar."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"slang",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"word": "shit-stir"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English verbs"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "shit-stirs",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shit-stirring",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shit-stirred",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shit-stirred",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "++"
},
"expansion": "shit-stir (third-person singular simple present shit-stirs, present participle shit-stirring, simple past and past participle shit-stirred)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English intransitive verbs",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English vulgarities"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2000, Katy Watson, Juice, page 171",
"text": "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!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Deirdre Osborne, Hidden Gems, page 137",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Aaron Overfield, Veil",
"text": "\"Has Suren seen this?\" Hunter happily and maliciously shit-stirred through the phone.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To stir shit."
],
"links": [
[
"stir shit",
"stir shit"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, idiomatic, vulgar, intransitive) To stir shit."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"intransitive",
"slang",
"vulgar"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"English vulgarities"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Meanjin - Volume 63, Issues 3-4, page 229",
"text": "Ross has always had the decency to abuse and shit-stir him and call him Grumpy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2005, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Stories",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, J J Cooper, The Interrogator",
"text": "Not unless he got one just to shit-stir you.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To provoke; to deliberately upset."
],
"links": [
[
"provoke",
"provoke"
],
[
"deliberate",
"deliberate"
],
[
"upset",
"upset"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, idiomatic, vulgar, transitive) To provoke; to deliberately upset."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"slang",
"transitive",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"word": "shit-stir"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English verbs"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "shit-stirs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shit-stir (plural shit-stirs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English idioms",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English vulgarities"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1997, Paul Freeman, Ian Roberts: Finding Out, page 125",
"text": "I would've felt like an idiot saying \"Oh, my mate was just making it up as a shit stir. He always does that!\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Catherine Hanger, Switched on, page 182",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018 September 12, Daniel Rutledge, “The Bachelor Australia S06E08: Mean girl squad gets obliterated in most dramatic episode yet”, in Newshub",
"text": "She's caused a shit-stir in the house and it's just time to go.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An deliberately provoked uproar."
],
"links": [
[
"deliberate",
"deliberate"
],
[
"provoke",
"provoke"
],
[
"uproar",
"uproar"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, idiomatic, vulgar) An deliberately provoked uproar."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"slang",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"word": "shit-stir"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.