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aggravator en · NOUN

Etymology

From aggravate + -or.

Meanings

One who or that which aggravates.
(UK, obsolete, slang) Synonym of Newgate knocker (“a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear”).
- An aggravator, or love curl, of a delicate roundness, hung low upon the imperial forehead, […] 1848, William Evans Burton, Waggeries and Vagaries, page 57:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
aggravators	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Synonyms

Newgate knocker

Translations (1)

pt agravador (one who or that which aggravates)