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bludgeoner

bludgeoner noun: one who bludgeons.

Noun

bludgeoner (plural bludgeoners)

  1. One who bludgeons.
    • If one is stopped on the highway, one would rather hand one's purse over to a courteous knight than to the rough-and-ready bludgeoner.1898, Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, The Dial: A Semi-monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information, page 8
    • An unemployed, coke-abusing dog-bludgeoner was sentenced yesterday to nine months in prison by a Manhattan Supreme Court judge who called the man's 2005 murder of his pet "unimaginable."2007, New York Post, October 27 Puppy-Killer Gets 9 Months in Cage

Forms of bludgeoner

pluralbludgeoners

Origin of bludgeoner

From bludgeon + -er.

Words formed from bludgeoner

Questions about bludgeoner

What does bludgeoner mean?
Bludgeoner means one who bludgeons.
What part of speech is bludgeoner?
Bludgeoner is a noun.
What is the plural of bludgeoner?
The plural of bludgeoner is bludgeoners.

Words near bludgeoner in the dictionary

  1. Bludenz
  2. bludge
  3. bludged
  4. bludgeon
  5. bludgeoned
  6. bludgeoner
  7. bludgeoners
  8. bludgeoning
  9. bludgeonings
  10. bludgeonman
  11. bludgeonry

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