Heller

/ˈhelər/ noun

Definition

A person who raises hell or causes trouble; someone wild or reckless.

Etymology

From 'hell' (Old English 'hel') plus '-er' suffix. A 'heller' is someone who engages in hell-raising behavior; used informally, particularly in dialectal English.

Kelly Says

The word 'heller' is a great example of how personality types get immortalized in language—we have a word specifically for a person who causes chaos, which means different cultures throughout history have always had to describe the same troublemaking people.

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