mis·chief-mak·er

[mis-chif-mey-ker]
noun
a person who causes mischief, especially one who stirs up discord, as by talebearing.

Origin:
1700–10

mis·chief-mak·ing, adjective, noun
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mischief-maker

noun
someone who deliberately stirs up trouble [syn: troublemaker
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Mischief-maker is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
She befriends the town mischief-maker and becomes involved in not one, but two bank robberies.
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