Blackmailer

Definition: Blackmailer

Blackmailer

Noun

1. A criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them.

Date "blackmailer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references)

Synonyms: Blackmailer

Synonyms: extortioner (n), extortionist (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Blackmailer

Specialty definitions using "blackmailer": LICKSPITTLE, Lick-spittle. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Perhaps the most able blackmailer of her time, she was at once the worthiest opponent and the greatest ally, and the only woman I have ever the only woman, period. (Zero Effect; writing credit: Jake Kasdan)
Movie/TV Titles	Find the Blackmailer (1943) Blackmailer (1936) The Beloved Blackmailer (1918) In the Toils of the Blackmailer (1913) The Blackmailer (1913)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Ripoffs: A Complete Survival Guide Designed to Protect You and Yours Against Murderers and Muggers, Rapists and Molesters, Kidnappers and blackmailer (reference) The Blackmailer (A Black Bat Mystery) (reference) The Modest Blackmailer [LARGE PRINT] (reference) Three Novels: The Blackmailer, a Man of Power, the Great Occasion (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Sherlock Holmes - The Master Blackmailer (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper. In his character of editor he is closely allied to the blackmailer by the tie of occasional identity; for in truth the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species. Lickspittling is more detestable than blackmailing, precisely as the business of a confidence man is more detestable than that of a highway robber; and the parallel maintains itself throughout, for whereas few robbers will cheat, every sneak will plunder if he dare.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Blackmailer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.45% of the time. "Blackmailer" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	95.45%	21	76,261
Noun (proper)	4.55%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	22	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "blackmailer": blackmailer-in-chief.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "blackmailer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shantazhist (extortioner, extortionist). (various references)

Arabic		‏مبتز (extortioner), ‏المبتز (racketeer). (various references)

Bulgarian		изнудвач (exactor, extortionist, racketeer, shark, squeezer). (various references)

Chinese		恐赫�'索者. (various references)

Czech		vydìraè (extortioner, extortionist, racketeer). (various references)

Dutch		afdreiger. (various references)

Finnish		kiristäjä (extortioner). (various references)

French		maître-chanteur, maître chanteur. (various references)

German		Erpresser (extortioners, kidnapper, racketeer, racketeers). (various references)

Greek		εκβιαστήσ (extortioner, racketeer). (various references)

Hebrew		סחטן (extortioner, extortionist, racketeer). (various references)

Hungarian		zsaroló (exactor, extortionate, extortioner, extortionist, racketeer). (various references)

Indonesian		pemeras (racketeer). (various references)

Italian		ricattatore (racketeer). (various references)

Korean		사기꾼 (Deceiver, gouger, Hustler, swindler). (various references)

Manx		dooaleyr. (various references)

Pig Latin		ackmailerblay

Portuguese		chantagista. (various references)

Romanian		şantagist. (various references)

Russian		шантажист. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ucenjivač (extortioner, extortionist, racketeer). (various references)

Spanish		chantajista (racketeer). (various references)

Swedish		utpressare (bleeder, extortioner, flay-flint, racketeer). (various references)

Thai		ผู้ขู่ว่าจะเปิ�"โปงความลับ. (various references)

Turkish		şantajcı (bleeder, racketeer). (various references)

Ukranian		шантажист. (various references)

Vietnamese		người hâm doạ để l� m tiền người đi tống tiền. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "blackmailer": blackmailers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Blackmailer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blackmale. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "blackmailer" (pronounced 'Black"mail`er'): Acetifier, Acidifier, Aletaster, Almsgiver, Amplifier, Ant-eater, Anywhither, Armor-bearer, Backbiter, Backhander, Bagpiper, Ball-flower, Barkeeper, Barnburner, Barnstormer, Bartender, Base-burner, Basifier, Batfowler, Beaucatcher, Beautifier, Bedmaker, Bedswerver, Bee-eater, Beefeater, Bellwether, Benefiter, Birdcatcher, Blacksalter, Bloodflower, Bloodsucker, Bogsucker, Bondholder, Bookbinder, Bookholder, Bookkeeper, Bookmaker, Bookseller, Bootmaker, Bottleholder, Boxkeeper, Boycotter, Breechloader, Brickfielder, Bricklayer, Brickmaker, Bull-roarer, Bushfighter, Bushwhacker, Bystander. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-k-l-l-m-r"
	-2 letters: bicameral, blackmail, claimable.
	-3 letters: amicable, armillae, bacillar, balmlike, cabrilla, camellia, clambake, lacrimal, lamblike, mailable, micellar, millcake, millrace.
	-4 letters: alembic, alkalic, amiable, armilla, armlike, balkier, balmier, barilla, blacker, braille, brickle, caliber, calibre, cambial, camelia, cameral, caramel, cembali, ceramal, claimer, clamber, clarkia, climber, kalimba, keramic, lambier, liberal, likable, limbeck, macaber, macabre, makable, micella, mickler, miracle.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-k-l-l-m-r"
	+1 letter: blackmailers.
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