Upsetter

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who upsets (something); a disrupter.

    "And so were all Christians in Pliny's time, insane like others, and called not long after, followers of madness, upsetters of men, vicious innovators […]"

  2. 2
    an unexpected winner; someone who defeats the favorite competitor wordnet
  3. 3
    A person or device that turns something upside down.
  4. 4
    A kind of forging machine that moves horizontally.

Example

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"And so were all Christians in Pliny's time, insane like others, and called not long after, followers of madness, upsetters of men, vicious innovators […]"

Etymology

From upset + -er.

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