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Blighter vs Lighter - What's the difference?

blighter | lighter |

As nouns the difference between blighter and lighter

is that blighter is one who blights while lighter is one who, or that which, lights or lighter can be a flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).

As an adjective lighter is

(light) or lighter can be (light).

As a verb lighter is

to transfer cargo or fuel from a ship, lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.

blighter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who blights.
  • (British, often, disrespectful) A person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.
  • * 1911 , , Red Money , ch. 10:
    • "[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."
  • * 1919 , , The Secret of the Tower , ch. 7:
    • He knew that the old blighter had to be humored in certain small ways.
  • * 1923 , , The Inimitable Jeeves :
    • I tackled the blighter squarely.
  • * 2012 March 27, , " 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 .

    Anagrams

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    lighter

    English

    Etymology 1

    See

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (light)
    • I prefer a lighter shade of pink.

    Etymology 2

    See

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, lights.
    • a lighter of lamps
  • A small, reusable handheld device for creating fire, especially for lighting cigarettes.
    • Cigarette in mouth, he clutched his pockets in search of a lighter .

    Etymology 3

    See ; or possibly from (etyl) luchter

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flat-bottomed boat for carrying heavy loads across short distances (especially for canals or for loading or unloading larger boats).

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To transfer cargo or fuel from a ship, lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.

    • Etymology 4

    See

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (light)
    • What happened? You look 10 lbs. lighter !
    I wish I'd thrown a lighter punch; he's out cold.

    Anagrams

    * relight