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troublemaking

adj
/ˈtɹʌb(ə)lmeɪkɪŋ/UK

Etymology

From trouble + making.

  1. inherited from macung
  2. inherited from making
  3. compounded as troublemaking — “trouble + making”

Definitions

  1. Causing trouble.

    • Moving to Saignon in the mid-1920s, he helped to produce a troublemaking newspaper, L'Indochine, which ventilated the many complaints of the Vietnamese about forced labor, land expropriation, and police brutality.

  2. Causing trouble

    Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way

    • The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA