bludgeoner

bludgeoner
Someone who wields or uses a bludgeon as a weapon.

An unemployed, coke-abusing dog-bludgeoner was sentenced yesterday to nine months in prison by a Manhattan Supreme Court judge who called the mans 2005 murder of his pet "unimaginable."

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  • bludgeoner — See bludgeon. * * * …   Universalium

  • bludgeoner — noun an assailant who uses a bludgeon • Derivationally related forms: ↑bludgeon • Hypernyms: ↑attacker, ↑aggressor, ↑assailant, ↑assaulter …   Useful english dictionary

  • bludgeon — bludgeoner, bludgeoneer /bluj euh near /, n. /bluj euhn/, n. 1. a short, heavy club with one end weighted, or thicker and heavier than the other. v.t. 2. to strike or knock down with a bludgeon. 3. to force into something; coerce; bully: The boss …   Universalium

  • bludger — This word is a form of bludgeoner. A bludgeoner (not surprisingly) was a person who carried a bludgeon a short stout stick or club . It appears in a mid nineteenth century English slang dictionary as a term for a low thief, who does not hesitate… …   Australian idioms

  • bludge — verb (bludged; bludging) Etymology: back formation from British argot bludger pimp, probably contraction of bludgeoner one wielding a bludgeon, from bludgeon Date: circa 1919 intransitive verb 1. chiefly Australian …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • All-for-Ireland League — group portrait of five of its Independent Members of Parliament, in the Cork Free Press July 30th 1910. These are: Patrick Guiney (North Cork), James Gilhooly (West Cork), Maurice Healy (North east Cork), D. D. Sheehan (Mid Cork) and …   Wikipedia

  • bludgeoneer — See bludgeoner. * * * …   Universalium

  • Bludger — 1. someone who imposes on others, evades responsibilities, does not do a fair share of the work, etc.; 2. lazy person; 3. (obsolete) man living on the earnings of a prostitute; a pimp (a variant of earlier thieve s slang bludgeoner a thug who… …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • bludger — Australian Slang 1. someone who imposes on others, evades responsibilities, does not do a fair share of the work, etc.; 2. lazy person; 3. (obsolete) man living on the earnings of a prostitute; a pimp (a variant of earlier thieve s slang… …   English dialects glossary

  • bludger — (n.) prostitute s pimp, 1856, short for bludgeoner, agent noun from BLUDGEON (Cf. bludgeon) (v.) …   Etymology dictionary

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