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blighter|ˈblaɪtə(r)|
1. Anything that blights.
1822De Quincey Confess (1886) 16 Old age..is a miserable corrupter and blighter to the genial charities of the human heart. a1845Hood Spring ii, The Spring!.. I find her breath a bitter blighter!
2. slang. A contemptible or unpleasant person; often merely as an extravagant substitute for ‘fellow’. Also transf.
1896Idler Mar. 282/1 ‘Larry,’ says they, ‘you ain't going to let that blighter throw you.’ 1900Westm. Gaz. 28 Mar. 9/3 Down with the dirty blighters who will not remove their hats. 1904Kipling in Windsor Mag. Jan. 226/2 ‘There's an accommodatin' blighter for you!’ said Pyecroft. 1920Locke House of Baltazar xviii. 218 He could buy up this old blighter of a lord twice over. 1922Daily Mail 3 Nov. 15, I never dreamt the little blighter would go off in such a hurry. 1952R. Finlayson Schooner came to Atia 101 Chapham suddenly became aware of the loud chatter of mina birds. ‘Noisy blighters’ he said. 1957J. I. M. Stewart Use of Riches 16 ‘What we have to contrive,’ he said, ‘is fair shares—or something near it—for each of the little blighters.’ |