Other forms: troublemakers
A troublemaker is a person who stirs up problems wherever they go. Not causing trouble by accident — enjoying it.
The word is a real accusation and it is worth being careful with, since it has often been applied to people raising legitimate objections, and calling somebody a troublemaker is a way of dismissing what they said. Schools and workplaces use it as a label that sticks. There is a lighter affectionate use about children. Agitator and rabble-rouser are the political versions of the same charge.
1nountroublemakerA person who deliberately causes problems or discord.
“He was written off as a troublemaker and left within a year.”
Latin
turbula — disorderly group, a little crowd or people
Vulgar Latin
*turbulō
Old French
troubler
Middle English
troublen
English
trouble
English, today
troublemaker
Built from
From trouble + make + -er. trouble Verb is from Middle English troublen, trouble, borrowed from Old French troubler, trobler, trubler, metathetic variants of tourbler, torbler, turbler, from Vulgar Latin turbulō, from Latin turbula (“disorderly group, a little crowd or people”), diminutive of turba (“stir; crowd”). The noun is from Middle English trouble, troble, from Old French troble, from the verb.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA