aggravator

noun — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From aggravate + -or.

One who or that which aggravates.

UK, Obsolete, Slang Synonym of Newgate knocker (“a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear”).

An aggravator, or love curl, of a delicate roundness, hung low upon the imperial forehead, […]1848, William Evans Burton, Waggeries and Vagaries, page 57:

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