单词 | blighter |
释义 | blightern. 1. Anything that blights. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > a harmful thing or person > thing thornc1230 plaguea1382 foea1393 evila1400 flaw1481 detriment?1504 tooth1546 fang1555 decay1563 bane1577 dagger1600 scourge1603 cursea1616 blighter1821 bacillus1883 1821 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater in London Mag. Sept. 302/1 Old age..is a miserable corrupter and blighter to the genial charities of the human heart. a1845 T. Hood 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 transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in contempt thingOE cat?c1225 geggea1300 fox-whelpc1320 creaturea1325 whelp1338 scoutc1380 turnbroach14.. foumart1508 shit1508 get?a1513 strummel?a1513 scofting?1518 pismirea1535 clinchpoop1555 rag1566 huddle and twang1578 whipster1590 slop1599 shullocka1603 tailor1607 turnspit1607 fitchewa1616 bulchin1617 trundle-taila1626 tick1631 louse1633 fart1669 insect1684 mully-grub-gurgeon1746 grub-worm1752 rass1790 foutre1794 blister1806 snot1809 skin1825 scurf1851 scut1873 Siwash1882 stiff1882 bleeder1887 blighter1896 sugar1916 vuilgoed1924 klunk1942 fart sack1943 fart-arse1946 jerkwad1980 1896 Idler Mar. 282/1 ‘Larry,’ says they, ‘you ain't going to let that blighter throw you.’ 1900 Westm. Gaz. 28 Mar. 9/3 Down with the dirty blighters who will not remove their hats. 1904 R. Kipling in Windsor Mag. Jan. 226/2 ‘There's an accommodatin' blighter for you!’ said Pyecroft. 1920 W. J. Locke House of Baltazar xviii. 218 He could buy up this old blighter of a lord twice over. 1922 Daily Mail 3 Nov. 15 I never dreamt the little blighter would go off in such a hurry. 1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 5 Oct. 274/2 Why was the blighter [sc. the prosecuting counsel] allowed to make the witness say just what he wanted him to say? 1952 R. Finlayson Schooner came to Atia 101 Chapham suddenly became aware of the loud chatter of mina birds. ‘Noisy blighters’ he said. 1957 J. 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.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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