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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly]
2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1822 1. one that blights 2. chiefly British a. a disliked or contemptible person b. fellow, guy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Brit. colloq. a person (esp. as a term of contempt or disparagement). Etymology: BLIGHT + -ER(1)

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(blighters) 1. You can refer to someone you do not like as a blighter. (BRIT INFORMAL) He was a nasty little blighter. N-COUNT [disapproval] 2. You can use blighter as an informal way of referring to someone. (BRIT) Lucky blighter, thought King. = fellow N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

Bowery bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, derelict, devil, drifter, drunkard, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hobo, human wreck, lowlife, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, no-good, pauvre diable, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, sad case, sad sack, skid-row bum, stiff, sundowner, swagman, tramp, truant, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, wastrel, worm, worthless fellow, wretch