shit-stir meaning (slang): definition, quotations

shit-stir

verb

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!2000, Katy Watson, Juice, page 171:
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.2008, Deirdre Osborne, Hidden Gems, page 137:

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"Has Suren seen this?" Hunter happily and maliciously shit-stirred through the phone.2012, Aaron Overfield, Veil:

Idiomatic, Slang, Vulgar To provoke; to deliberately upset.

Ross has always had the decency to abuse and shit-stir him and call him Grumpy.2004, Meanjin - Volume 63, Issues 3-4, page 229:
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.2005, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Stories:

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noun

Idiomatic, Slang, Vulgar A deliberately provoked uproar.

I would've felt like an idiot saying "Oh, my mate was just making it up as a shit stir. He always does that!"1997, Paul Freeman, Ian Roberts: Finding Out, page 125:
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.2006, Catherine Hanger, Switched on, page 182:

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She's caused a shit-stir in the house and it's just time to go.2018 September 12, Daniel Rutledge, “The Bachelor Australia S06E08: Mean girl squad gets obliterated in most dramatic episode yet”, in Newshub: