Blighter vs Brighter - What's the difference?
blighter | brighter |
One who blights.
(British, often, disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.
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(bright)
As a noun blighter
is one who blights.As an adjective brighter is
comparative of bright.blighter
English
Noun
(en noun)- "[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."
- He knew that the old blighter had to be humored in certain small ways.
- I tackled the blighter squarely.
The King's Speech play: At last, my crowning moment...," The Independent (UK) (retrieved 27 Dec 2012):
- Translation: there's still some hope for you, poor stammering blighter .