blighter

/ˈblaɪdər/
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Other forms: blighters

Definitions of blighter
  1. noun
    a boy or man
    synonyms: bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, fellow, gent, lad
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    types:
    dog
    informal term for a man
    type of:
    male, male person
    a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies
  2. noun
    a persistently annoying person
    synonyms: cuss, gadfly, pest, pesterer
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    types:
    nudnick, nudnik
    (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest
    type of:
    persecutor, tormenter, tormentor
    someone who torments
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