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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
blighter
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was a punctilious blighter and I can't see him using the Lab as a convenient place for a rendezvous.
▪ Not much cop considering that the game requires a hefty one hundred of the little blighters to be meandering about at once!
▪ Pity the poor blighter couldn't spell.
▪ Poor blighter was hanged and we were dancing the night away.
▪ Poor Ireland finally ran the blighters out about twenty-five years after you died.
▪ The blighters have even been immortalised in the history books.
▪ They found the blighter in Cricklewood - or what was left of him.
▪ You know, you needn't follow this blighter out.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blighter

1822, "thing which blights," agent noun from blight (v.). British colloquial sense of "contemptible person" (often jocular) is recorded from 1896.

Wiktionary
blighter

n. 1 One who blights. 2 (context British often disrespectful English) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.

WordNet
blighter

  1. n. a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, cuss, pesterer, gadfly]

  2. a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, lad, gent, fella, cuss]

Wikipedia
Blighter

Blighter or Blighters may refer to:

  • Blighter, a ground surveillance radar manufactured by Plextek Limited, UK
  • Blighter, a character class in the game Dungeons and Dragons
  • Blighter, a fictional hominid species in the Age of Fire fantasy novels by E. E. Knight
  • The Blighters, a fictional street gang in the video game Assassin's Creed Syndicate

Usage examples of "blighter".

These little blighters are so successful, one species has been introduced from South America to effectively control Harrisia cactus in Queensland.

I don't mind admitting that in the first flush of the thing, so to speak, when Jeeves told me - this would be about three weeks after I'd landed in America - that a blighter called Cyril Bassington-Bassington had arrived and I found that he had brought a letter of introduction to me from Aunt Agatha .

I can see with half an eye that all these blighters are confirmed egg-eaters.

He said, 'Open the yard gate and let the blighters come out into the open.

It's rummy about these blighters, but they never seem able to understand a damn thing.

I propose to speak pretty chattily to these blighters, and in the heat of the moment one or two expressions might occur to me which you would not like.

By jove, it will go tough with these blighters when His Majesty’s navy arrives!

Of course the opposition papers may have allowed their zeal to run away with them, but even assuming that to be the case, the other candidates appear to be a pretty fair contingent of blighters.

Advices from Comrade Windsor inform me that that prince of blighters, Waring, was rejected by an intelligent electorate.

Andrew lifted his glass and said softly, I give you those poor blighters out there in the mud.

They were hunted out of these mountains sixty years ago, dangerous and treacherous little blighters by all accounts, and I understood that they had all been exterminated.

The blighters will take us for pirates — I don't blame them if they do — and there'd be a deuce of a rumpus before we could explain.

Then the bust up with Banda Rica came off, and the blighters sort of roped me in.

It's the miserable blighters like yourself what won't own up to it that gets my goat.

If those blighters don't clear off, we'll have to make a dash for the town as soon as it's light.