Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A fellow, especially one held in low esteem.

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  • noun One who blights.
  • noun UK A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a persistently annoying person
  • noun a boy or man

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Examples

  • But the most important question: what do we call the blighter?

    Londonist 2009

  • The blighter was a blaze of mauve from the ankle-bone southward.

    Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories 1928

  • The sorry part of it was that that "blighter" in trying to get me had shot several other men.

    "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

  • We at first thought the Germans were upon us, but the scattering of the fire brands all over the room told us that some "blighter" had left some clips of live cartridges in the sweepings of the fire place.

    "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

  • Of course if you refused you were a "blighter" of the worst description.

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • The obvious obstruction is the obstinate "blighter" with a machine-gun in front of them.

    Old Junk 1915

  • Though the fashion may be for plain speaking, it is often a matter of mood, and the mate who genuinely believes you a "blighter" one day, will claim you as a

    A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil 1907

  • My word for 'blighter' was _trottel_, but I used some other expressions which would have ravished my Young Turk friend to hear.

    Greenmantle John Buchan 1907

  • Mrs. K calls me a 'blighter' day in and day out, sir and one has to put up with these outbursts.

    Telegraph Blogs 2009

  • Since I am an optimistic kind of blighter, I've an Alagh law: good ideas eventually drive out bad ones.

    Top Headlines 2009

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  • "He doesn't half want a thick ear, the blighter. Biff him one, Harry." Joyce, Ulysses, 15

    January 1, 2008