cheerer-upper
Americannoun
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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