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cheerer-upper

American  
[cheer-er-uhp-er] / ˌtʃɪər ərˈʌp ər /

noun

Informal.

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

    A good joke is the best cheerer-upper.

Etymology

Origin of cheerer-upper

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

Example Sentences

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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 • Mar. 18, 2016

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

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2012

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

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