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blighters

blighters is the plural of blighter.

Meaning of blighter

Noun

blighter (plural blighters)

  1. One who blights.
  2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, often disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.
  3. A man or child, especially an annoying one.
    • "[I]f I had known that Pine was such a blighter as to leave me nothing, I'm hanged if I'd have allowed him to be buried in such decent company."1911, Fergus Hume, chapter 10, in Red Money

Questions about blighters

What is blighters the plural of?
Blighters is the plural of blighter.

Words near blighters in the dictionary

  1. blighten
  2. blightened
  3. blightening
  4. blightens
  5. blighter
  6. blighters
  7. blightest
  8. blighteth
  9. blighties
  10. blighting
  11. blightingly

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