cheerer-upper

[ cheer-er-uhp-er ]

noun

, Informal.

1. a person or thing that cheers a person up:

   A good joke is the best cheerer-upper.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cheerer-upper¹

cheer up + -er ¹, joined pleonastically to both v. and particle

Example Sentences

He is the chef and chief “cheerer-upper”, but this has become wearing.

From The Guardian

She works mostly as a translator, an "independent behaviorist, experienced cheerer-upper, and freelance self, who was having a delayed love affair with the world due to an isolated childhood."

From Los Angeles Times

But “Magoo” is a cheerer-upper, after all, with plenty of cartoony humor.

From New York Times

She is a sort of roving delegate, cheerer-upper, smoother-over and finder-outer for the whole Red Cross of Africa and half the Army, too.

From Time Magazine Archive