What do you call a person who likes a fight?
What could one call someone who likes to pick fights? What else is the example of a Shit stirrer?
What is less slang? What can I say to someone without using the word “shit”?
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A fighter – an
- aggressive competitor, especially one always ready or eager for a fight, argument, or contest ( source ). Consider the words below: Scrapper (informal) – a fighter or aggressive competitor ( source ).
- Fighter – a person who physically fights another person (note that the word is often used to talk about professional boxers and just strong people who don’t give up easily, but in the right context the word may be what you are looking for).
What is also called a shit stirrer? I’m not for picking fights, I’m just an ordinary guy. I like to pick sparring, is it really that easy of some? Is this real?
Pugnacious fits:
Eager or quick to argue, quarrel, or fight.
Oxford Dictionary
You can also look up synonyms. What is the comparison between Merriam and Webster?
What is a belligerent adjective?
Some publications definitions include:
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inclined or eager to fight; hostile or aggressive.
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Aggressively hostile to others, eager to fight. Acting violently towards others.
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Belligerent, contentious, aggressive, truculent, combative, pugnacious, etc. on the exact context of a situation. What’s the best service to help me on choosing the right word from a dictionary?
Such a person is a hothead or bruiser or has a chip on his/her shoulder, any person on the right side or left side.
According to your Vocabulary. What
is a hothead? Why does a hothead make a protest violent?
Source: www.vocabulary.org. According
to CollinsDictionary.com/dictionary/oyender/hothead.COM. A
bruiser is someone who is heavy and aggressive, and enjoys a fight.
Source: https://www.collinsdictionary.org. British
dictionary.com/gr/english/bruiser.html. Posted here by: bruiser.com.
Instead of saying
- ‘He’s a shit-stirrer ‘, I’m just an ordinary man.
He is a
- fire eater. Fire-eater: A belligerent person or a
militant partisan.
Other synonyms: bellicose, pugnacious, combative, belligerent.
Adverbs mean having or showing an eagerness to fight with and to defend something.
More referring to willingness/tending to get into an argument: antagonistic, contentious, quarrelsome, argumentative… Refering idioms, you can
simply say He’s always looking to
- pick a fight / quarrel. I’m a violent guy and I’m always fighting for trouble.
- I believe in that.
- He’s always crusing for a bruising. It would be unusual if he’s been going on about a thinning bruise! I
- can’t wait for fight time anymore.. He’s always spoiling for me..(Ladies’s) words..He is always spoiling..Of course it is a slang..Like some thing like who spoils me…. He’s like a smokin’ fool..He’s always spoiling for a fight..Some times I feel..he’s spoiling for a fight of some kind.
- He’s arguing always for the sake of arguments.
Slightly more specific, but appliable to general cases:
- He’s always arguing the toss. He has a chip on his shoulder
- to remind himself that there is something already decided. (showing resentfulness)
- He always ends up cutting up rough. (chiefly British, suddenly becomes angry and violent)
Is the adjective quarrelsome a good word to describe someone who likes to argue with other people’s opinions? And we do that mainly for the heck of it. Is there any combat that is physically real and not a quarrel? What is a quarrelsome person?
Can you discuss your views?
If you’ve been talking about a non-physical fight, “rabble-rouser” is a clean alternative to
“shit-stirrer”.
What can also be a “Instigator” answer? Definition:
“a person who brings about or initiates something.. ” (Google)
You will still have to use the word “fight” (or a synonym of it):
He really likes instigating fights.
I still think belligerent is the best answer, but using “instigator” specifically is focusing on the fact that the person in question likes to initiate the fights, as opposed to someone who reacts to instigations violently. Would you be surprised
if this answer had completely flipped?
Does it sound like troublemaker?
A person who consciously or unconsciously causes trouble (merriam-webster)
You could use the verbal or physical pose for a physical encounter. Is the word profane?