stirrer
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈstɜːrər/
:
agitador
- Made of hickory, it is as well-designed a stirrer as I have ever seen.
- a coffee stirrer
- a plastic stirrer
- a wooden stirrer
Examples
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Dolores rummaged for her container of Tropicana orange juice in his brown cardboard box and, as an afterthought, took a plastic coffee stirrer to chew on.
Fiction book (1994) -
For your information, I am buying this to use as a novelty cocktail stirrer.
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"Stirrer," he said, and he reached for one higher up, but it was stuck to the wooden shelf.
Fiction book (1991) -
The prepared solution was stirred for 24 hours using a magnetic stirrer.
Academic text (2016) -
He smiled when he took the stirrer out of his decaffeinated coffee.
Fiction book (1996) -
He takes a plastic stirrer and stirs the powders.
Fiction book (1990) -
She lifted the little wooden stirrer that had crystallized sugar around it and dipped it in.
Fiction book (1994) -
I gathered some paint stirrers that were spread around the mantle and on the floor and piled them on top of a paint can.
Fiction book (1997) -
Now nicely numbed and hypoglycemic, she was on her second diluted jumbo Coke, sucking ice and fooling with the pink plastic stirrer.
Fiction book (2002) -
She used a wooden stirrer to mix the ingredients together in the pot.
Synonyms
37
1.5
A kitchen machine that combines and beats ingredients for cooking or baking
36
1.5
A flat, thin tool with a handle for lifting and turning food like pancakes
8
3.8
A tool that mixes food or removes dust from a carpet
5
2.3
A kitchen machine that mixes food ingredients using electricity, like cake batter or cream
3
5.9
A small stick for stirring drinks like cocktails in a glass
3
3.4
Electric machine with a bowl that beats and kneads dough
3
1.4
A tool like a spoon or knife that people use in the kitchen to prepare food
1
7.5
A tool for stirring or beating cream to make butter
1
2.8
A small tool you hold to mix and beat food such as batter and cream
A machine that mixes food or other materials
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Etymology
The word stirrer comes from the verb stir, which means 'to move or mix', plus the ending -er that means 'one who'. So a stirrer is literally 'one who stirs', which is why a small stick used to mix drinks is called a stirrer.