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blighting en · ADJ
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(UK, not-comparable, 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 en · NOUN
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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:
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blightingly
blighting en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of blight