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BLIGHTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blighter mean?
• BLIGHTER (noun)
The noun BLIGHTER has 2 senses:
1. a persistently annoying person
2. a boy or man
Familiarity information: BLIGHTER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A persistently annoying person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
blighter; cuss; gadfly; pest; pesterer
Hypernyms ("blighter" is a kind of...):
persecutor; tormenter; tormentor (someone who torments)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blighter"):
nudnick; nudnik ((Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A boy or man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad
Context example:
he's a good bloke
Hypernyms ("blighter" is a kind of...):
male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blighter"):
dog (informal term for a man)
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