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blackmailer

noun

Etymology

From blackmail + -er.

  1. derived from *med-✻
  2. derived from *maþlą✻
  3. derived from mál
  4. derived from māl
  5. derived from mal
  6. derived from reditus nigri — “black mail”
  7. formed as blackmailer — “blackmail + -er”

Definitions

  1. Someone who blackmails.

    • "It’s a crime crueller and infinitely worse in its results than murder. As a lawyer, I can only say that I have consistently refused to defend a blackmailer or to prosecute any poor devil who does away with his tormentor.”
    • This sex blackmailer and dryhanded public virgin was lunching secretly each week with the East Coast spokesman for organized crime, Frank Costello, in N.Y. Central Park's Tavern on the Green (according to the Time magazine obituary).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blackmailer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA