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blister
English
Etymology
From Middle English blister, from Old French blestre, from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Dutch blyster (“swelling”), Old Norse blastr (“a blowing”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?bl?st?/
- Rhymes: -?st?(r)
Noun
blister (plural blisters)
- A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.
- 1967, Donald Howard Grainger, Don't Die in the Bundu
- Inspect them for rub marks and blisters; tape or bandage rub marks; clean the skin around a blister, use a sterilised needle to puncture it at its outer edge and press out the fluid, then bandage.
- 1967, Donald Howard Grainger, Don't Die in the Bundu
- A swelling on a plant.
- (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.168:
- 'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister, a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well […]
- A bubble, as on a painted surface.
- (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
- A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
- a cause of annoyance
- 1923 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse The Inimitable Jeeves page 39
- I couldn't help thinking how dashed happy I could have contrived to be in this place if only Aunt Agatha and the other blisters had been elsewhere.
- 1933 Collier's Illustrated Weekly, Volume 91 page 14
- I will say, however, that we fanned her well — her and her old blister of a mother and a bewhisk- ered old goat named Boris.
- 2013 P.G. Wodehouse, Blandings: TV Tie-In page 126
- 'We mustn't laugh about it, my boy. It's no joking matter. It's very wrong to shoot Mr Baxter.'
'But he's a blister.'
'He is a blister,' agreed Lord Emsworth, always fairminded. 'Nevertheless. . . . Remember, he is your tutor.'
- 'We mustn't laugh about it, my boy. It's no joking matter. It's very wrong to shoot Mr Baxter.'
- 2017 Joe Archibald, The Willie Klump MEGAPACK® page 302
- Willie suddenly realized the heat really wasn't off the criminal persons, and he sprang into action. The blonde blister also recovered surprisingly fast and threw the big wordy tome at the Klump coco .
- 1923 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse The Inimitable Jeeves page 39
Synonyms
- bleb
- blain
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
blister (third-person singular simple present blisters, present participle blistering, simple past and past participle blistered)
- (transitive) To raise blisters on.
- (intransitive) To have a blister form.
- (transitive) To criticise severely.
- (intransitive) To break out in blisters.
Synonyms
- vesicate
Translations
Anagrams
- Bitlers, Bristle, Liberts, bristle, reblits, riblets
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English blister (“blister; blister pack”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl?s.t?r/
- Hyphenation: blis?ter
Noun
blister m (plural blisters, diminutive blistertje n)
- blister pack
- Synonyms: doordrukstrip, blisterpak, blisterverpakking
French
Noun
blister m (plural blisters)
- blister pack
Polish
Etymology
From English blister.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl?i.st?r/
Noun
blister m inan
- blister pack
Declension
Further reading
- blister in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- blister in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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blaster
English
Alternative forms
- (science fiction weapon): blastor
Etymology
blast +? -er
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?bl??s.t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?blæs.t?/
- Rhymes: -??st?(r)
Noun
blaster (plural blasters)
- Anything that, or anyone who blasts.
- A device to detonate an explosive, often consisting of a box with a handle to be pressed down.
- (science fiction) An unspecified powerful hand weapon, usually one that fires an energy pulse or beam.
- (golf, slang) A sand wedge.
- 1948, Henry Cotton, This Game of Golf (page 119)
- The "blaster" type of club has been blamed for doing its share in making golf courses look ridiculous, […]
- 1962, Gary Player, Golf Secrets (page 61)
- The person who has a sand wedge - the blaster - for these shots has a distinct advantage.
- 1948, Henry Cotton, This Game of Golf (page 119)
Hypernyms
- (science fiction weapon): energy weapon, ray gun
Coordinate terms
- (science fiction weapon): death ray, phaser
Derived terms
- ghetto blaster
Anagrams
- Alberts, Bartels, Bartles, Stabler, Tablers, bralets, labrets, reblast, stabler, tablers
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