blighting

adj, noun — 2 senses

blighting

adj

/ˈblaɪtɪŋ/

1

UK, Slang Damned; pesky.

"Mate," said the Cockney, after we'd finished about half the bottle, "it comes to me that we're a couple o' blightin' idjits to be workin' for a skirt.1931, Robert E. Howard, Alleys of Peril:

blighting

noun

1

The act by which something is blighted.

They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:

Derived terms: blightingly

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