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bletcherous

bletcherous adjective: having an unaesthetic design or functionality; ugly.

Adjective

bletcherous (comparative more bletcherous, superlative most bletcherous)

  1. (slang) Having an unaesthetic design or functionality; ugly.
    • […] my immaculate person, once a wanton playground for every manner of sexual ecstasy, is now a sickening melange of bletcherous flab, fugitive follicles, degenerative cellulite […]2009 April, James Mitchell, Good Gay Poems, 1967-2007, San Francisco: Ithuriel's Spear, page 26

Forms of bletcherous

comparativemore bletcherous
superlativemost bletcherous
alternative formblecherous

Origin of bletcherous

From blech + -ous, presumably under the influence of similar-sounding words such as treacherous and lecherous.

Questions about bletcherous

What does bletcherous mean?
Bletcherous means having an unaesthetic design or functionality; ugly.
What part of speech is bletcherous?
Bletcherous is an adjective.

Words near bletcherous in the dictionary

  1. blessworthy
  2. blessèd
  3. blest
  4. blet
  5. bletch
  6. bletcherous
  7. bletches
  8. Bletchingdon
  9. Bletchingley
  10. Bletchley
  11. Bletchley and Fenny Stratford

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