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bleeder en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈbliːdə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈblidɚ/ (General-American)
  • (Australia) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English bleed Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English bleeder From bleed + -er.

Meanings

  1. A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
    • And then finally to pass on to the rising generation there were Sean's two little girls Rose and Cerise, aged five and four respectively, and these innocent little girlies were bleeders like their papa and mama […] 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
  2. A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
    • Ligate or cauterize small subcutaneous bleeders and identify the linea alba. 2013, Theresa Welch Fossum, Small Animal Surgery Textbook:
  3. Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
  4. A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
  5. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, derogatory, slang) A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
    • ‘Well, what did the old bleeder say?’ said Opus Fluke. 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 36, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:
    • His brother caught three hundred cran when the seas were lavish, / Threw the bleeders back in the sea and went upon the parish. 1938, Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music:
  6. Synonym of scratch hit.
  7. A person who menstruates (used in the context of transgender inclusivity).
    • Vostral (2008) sees menstrual technology as focused on allowing women to “pass” as non-bleeders, speaking to the sense of the female body as dysfunctional, problematic, and “out of control.” 2014, Michael O'Loughlin, Marilyn Charles, Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering, page 154:

Forms

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Deriveds

bench bleeder · nosebleeder · squabbling bleeder · freebleeder

Synonyms

scratch hit

Translations (6)

sv bråkmakare (troublesome fellow; blighter) · cs hemofilik (person who is easily made to bleed) · fr sangsue (something that saps a resource produced by something else) · pl hemofilik (person who is easily made to bleed) · de Bluter (person who is easily made to bleed) · sv bråkstake (troublesome fellow; blighter)