What is another word for blackleg?
Pronunciation:
[ blˈaklɛɡ], [ blˈaklɛɡ], [ b_l_ˈa_k_l_ɛ_ɡ]
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Synonyms for Blackleg:
n.
• blackleg (noun)- rat,
- strikebreaker,
- scab.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- gambler.
- grim,
- pass out,
- accomplish,
- deal,
- hindquarters,
- fall upon,
- find out,
- foumart,
- merchantman,
- crackers,
- roam,
- shaft,
- issue forth,
- die,
- cut-up,
- defile,
- venal,
- fencesitter,
- sell,
- dotty,
- bang,
- stagger,
- spot,
- bring,
- sentry,
- deal out,
- blacken,
- posterior,
- grub,
- worst,
- outlaw,
- retreat,
- deviant,
- collide with,
- sharpie,
- go forth,
- blockage,
- get word,
- bribe,
- take the air,
- bomb,
- arse,
- scratch,
- nauseant,
- go,
- keister,
- misuse,
- knock off,
- hold,
- calamitous,
- carry out,
- around the bend,
- mooch,
- parcel out,
- mother fucker,
- blackened,
- disastrous,
- diddly,
- vomiting,
- kill,
- stoolie,
- take up,
- sly,
- chess,
- dispense,
- lyssa,
- radar target,
- observe,
- collar,
- negro,
- conk out,
- bewray,
- sneaky,
- pasturage,
- contraband,
- diffuse,
- card sharp,
- commute,
- back away,
- defector,
- stay,
- sneak,
- miscarry,
- nooky,
- swinger,
- risk taker,
- muleteer,
- emesis,
- double-faced,
- start,
- scammer,
- madness,
- fuck,
- scupper,
- come up,
- put to work,
- trembles,
- convince,
- surface,
- act,
- rotting,
- drift,
- snoot,
- lead on,
- let out,
- chiseller,
- piece of ass,
- fundament,
- lounge around,
- behind,
- cutpurse,
- seat,
- bootleg,
- bolt down,
- musk turtle,
- mark,
- get wind,
- diddle,
- sea crawfish,
- delude,
- asshole,
- consume,
- flunk,
- brand,
- scalawag,
- delusive,
- chouse,
- rebel,
- cardsharper,
- cadge,
- bend,
- traitorously,
- merchant ship,
- influence,
- pull back,
- derive,
- deprave,
- seminal fluid,
- pass off,
- sully,
- lead astray,
- sinister,
- hike,
- loll around,
- chance upon,
- circularise,
- penetrate,
- sham,
- key out,
- pass,
- communicate,
- fuck off,
- habitual criminal,
- step up,
- mulct,
- peavey,
- come out of the closet,
- mold,
- piffle,
- retch,
- browse,
- distinguish,
- two-handed,
- fare,
- refine,
- lookout,
- daft,
- jack,
- vomit up,
- cat,
- treacherously,
- lifter,
- deadbeat,
- branch,
- regurgitate,
- kooky,
- broadcast,
- ringlet,
- hornswoggle,
- ten-strike,
- black disease,
- freighter,
- cheap,
- polish,
- make for,
- independent,
- piece,
- shucks,
- proletarian,
- total,
- chintzy,
- crawdaddy,
- inglorious,
- hoaxer,
- kookie,
- ill humor,
- run into,
- tramper,
- misdirect,
- watch,
- unsound,
- body of work,
- downwardly,
- depressed,
- card shark,
- roll,
- sponsor,
- round-shouldered,
- streetwalker,
- underhanded,
- diddlyshit,
- abuse,
- fatal,
- low-spirited,
- pour down,
- little potato,
- felon,
- twaddle,
- bastardly,
- pull in one's horns,
- flake,
- ignominious,
- announce,
- piece of tail,
- nutty,
- get,
- twist,
- fall out,
- unmasking,
- cheesy,
- blue,
- lock away,
- operator,
- sit,
- litigate,
- foulmart,
- carry,
- derriere,
- impinge on,
- reveal,
- solve,
- tinker's dam,
- activeness,
- fitch,
- stern,
- total darkness,
- blues,
- hunched,
- disclose,
- stooped,
- street girl,
- circularize,
- bonkers,
- activity,
- ramble,
- disperse,
- short-change,
- range,
- reversionist,
- buns,
- impress,
- nail,
- sponge,
- second,
- come across,
- downward,
- swindle,
- knavish,
- scam,
- tricksy,
- shifty,
- cloud,
- hogwash,
- bunkum,
- assume,
- taint,
- profess,
- appear,
- strickle,
- identify,
- process,
- stigmatise,
- buncombe,
- off-key,
- bribable,
- name,
- shoot,
- change over,
- dark,
- mould,
- key,
- slick,
- conduct,
- number,
- convolute,
- ignition lock,
- excise,
- hear,
- smuggled,
- play,
- lookout man,
- gloomy,
- fulfill,
- plod,
- wildness,
- loafer,
- vagabond,
- snot,
- bunk,
- sob,
- egress,
- breathe,
- two-faced,
- empty,
- out,
- operate,
- idler,
- nab,
- regurgitation,
- whip,
- criminal,
- give up,
- profane,
- bull,
- hook,
- piece of work,
- endanger,
- underhandedly,
- gouger,
- rosette,
- employment,
- figure out,
- study,
- arrive,
- shape,
- check,
- break through,
- red cent,
- land,
- diddly-shit,
- batty,
- routine,
- wreak,
- whorl,
- melanize,
- push down,
- fraud,
- bulge out,
- bulge,
- subvert,
- shtup,
- come in,
- stool pigeon,
- simulated,
- pass on,
- undersurface,
- moulder,
- semen,
- itch,
- flush it,
- clack,
- prig,
- faithlessly,
- chicane,
- knead,
- fathom,
- oilskin,
- prattle,
- break down,
- ferment,
- back out,
- give way,
- military action,
- diddlysquat,
- vacate,
- pass around,
- apprehend,
- protrude,
- oink,
- down in the mouth,
- negroid,
- lurch,
- prole,
- ejaculate,
- pitch-black,
- palaver,
- spurious,
- distomatosis,
- floozy,
- rear,
- dishonourable,
- mop up,
- downcast,
- beguiler,
- come to,
- corruptible,
- store,
- peril,
- cheating,
- emerge,
- exhibit,
- fanny,
- notice,
- arrest,
- sour,
- natural process,
- wily,
- detect,
- turn out,
- blip,
- con,
- sess,
- impostor,
- place,
- expunge,
- deceiver,
- pull down,
- get along,
- pad,
- stray,
- prat,
- diddly-squat,
- prankster,
- rear end,
- mordant,
- purchasable,
- snoop,
- damn,
- ramification,
- disseminate,
- tare,
- bullshit,
- down feather,
- blackness,
- lock in,
- pretended,
- purge,
- repeater,
- barf,
- dish out,
- patronise,
- forage,
- stooping,
- waste,
- work out,
- spread,
- bum about,
- pig,
- belt down,
- green goddess,
- down pat,
- let on,
- prick,
- role player,
- wood pussy,
- double-crosser,
- nookie,
- bite,
- curl,
- grunter,
- hitch,
- horseshit,
- underarm,
- display,
- channel,
- give off,
- get a line,
- tail,
- son of a bitch,
- debauch,
- swan,
- see,
- walkway,
- prate,
- barmy,
- ratter,
- weed,
- misbegot,
- occlusion,
- pale,
- tittle-tattle,
- pegleg,
- cocksucker,
- pot,
- goldbrick,
- express,
- run out,
- step forward,
- janus-faced,
- treasonist,
- asymmetrical,
- frig around,
- screwing,
- curve,
- puking,
- regorge,
- footslog,
- pop out,
- rip off,
- understanding,
- oblique,
- grease one's palms,
- canary,
- jockey,
- pitch-dark,
- joseph black,
- patronize,
- sue,
- fictitious,
- black-market,
- minute,
- guileful,
- fine-tune,
- round-backed,
- loony,
- shag,
- shut away,
- mastered,
- waste one's time,
- downhearted,
- desist,
- dispirited,
- take,
- darnel,
- cultivate,
- spotter,
- fruity,
- uncover,
- sleazy,
- bottomland,
- interlock,
- double-dealing,
- vomitive,
- slog,
- bring out,
- smash,
- allot,
- crawdad,
- buy,
- occur,
- bum around,
- step to the fore,
- form,
- stoolpigeon,
- snitcher,
- underside,
- tricker,
- refrain,
- administer,
- debase,
- knave,
- cardsharp,
- wooden leg,
- turd,
- shine,
- downwards,
- peavy,
- shite,
- put away,
- spiny lobster,
- describe,
- bed,
- tricky,
- stage,
- show up,
- circulate,
- neglect,
- upchuck,
- practical joker,
- come forth,
- propagate,
- motherfucker,
- run,
- coin,
- foxy,
- bleak,
- breakdown,
- actor,
- be sick,
- hind end,
- shell out,
- diddley,
- demoralise,
- squat,
- action mechanism,
- lounge about,
- halt,
- exercise,
- happen upon,
- decompose,
- delusory,
- dirt,
- disgorgement,
- opprobrious,
- unwrap,
- knock down,
- act upon,
- loaf,
- rove,
- butt,
- mint,
- deviate,
- sentinel,
- corrupted,
- ecrevisse,
- rap,
- russet scab,
- fleck,
- rack up,
- punk,
- untrue,
- misleading,
- welcher,
- shammer,
- imposter,
- execute,
- hitter,
- fuzz,
- dole out,
- dump,
- light upon,
- find,
- mule driver,
- imitation,
- cut down,
- cast,
- stop,
- spy,
- go through,
- descend,
- turn up,
- transmit,
- shameful,
- nuts,
- trudge,
- turn,
- lick,
- crummy,
- varlet,
- mule skinner,
- lot,
- crop,
- toss off,
- fall,
- take a crap,
- amount,
- haywire,
- shop at,
- chatter,
- workshop,
- mesh,
- doodly-squat,
- fulfil,
- pick up,
- faux,
- gage,
- scallywag,
- tainted,
- malefactor,
- whacky,
- pasture,
- sharpy,
- smutty,
- tramp steamer,
- work stoppage,
- hand out,
- unconstraint,
- push through,
- loopy,
- sophisticate,
- decomposition,
- change,
- guff,
- dodgy,
- cracked,
- pseud,
- lightlessness,
- blab,
- maunder,
- cant dog,
- snatch,
- impart,
- lemon,
- mistaken,
- scrap,
- closure,
- pop,
- chance on,
- castle,
- cozen,
- peg,
- adjudge,
- balmy,
- legal action,
- loll,
- turncoat,
- hail,
- vapors,
- dim,
- doer,
- erupt,
- natural action,
- vapours,
- block,
- honk,
- disgorge,
- roundabout,
- langouste,
- tap,
- pile,
- hog,
- dope,
- chisel,
- dickhead,
- rapscallion,
- follow,
- hiker,
- tail end,
- withdraw,
- gibber,
- shepherd's crook,
- thieve,
- engage,
- hart,
- bunco,
- bearded darnel,
- whoreson,
- molder,
- haunt,
- interlace,
- defraud,
- copper,
- buy at,
- low,
- fateful,
- paseo,
- eatage,
- lock up,
- twist around,
- putrefaction,
- action at law,
- go wrong,
- grifter,
- concede,
- recreant,
- assumed,
- sick,
- smoke,
- make out,
- fake,
- mo,
- put on,
- learn,
- piquet,
- seed,
- sens,
- walk of life,
- moment,
- manner of walking,
- layabout,
- spoil,
- lock chamber,
- smasher,
- queer,
- roll in the hay,
- tooshie,
- scout,
- shutout,
- rascal,
- screw,
- come on,
- tush,
- supergrass,
- floozie,
- oeuvre,
- crawfish out,
- buggy,
- do-nothing,
- degenerate,
- locoweed,
- fetch,
- demolish,
- pitch blackness,
- disgraceful,
- cunning,
- spew,
- let loose,
- shop class,
- poop,
- cum,
- cutaneous anthrax,
- rump,
- throw up,
- move,
- wander,
- tinny,
- make,
- function,
- affect,
- bats,
- tattle,
- bottom of the inning,
- shut up,
- bug out,
- attain,
- rig,
- round the bend,
- tinker's damn,
- carry through,
- base on balls,
- emetic,
- chuck,
- vomitus,
- nobble,
- double-tongued,
- backside,
- hoot,
- rock lobster,
- come forward,
- crayfish,
- sneaker,
- pseudo,
- chip,
- issue,
- nates,
- grass over,
- melanise,
- ca-ca,
- stigmatize,
- utter,
- workplace,
- african-american,
- demoralize,
- win over,
- come to the fore,
- dip,
- slattern,
- blue devils,
- sleuth,
- circuitous,
- stool,
- double-dealer,
- add up,
- glom,
- devour,
- bastard,
- can,
- pretender,
- fucking,
- shoot down,
- wantonness,
- forge,
- vitiate,
- come upon,
- fellow feeling,
- dogshit,
- darn,
- walking,
- wheeler dealer,
- wage claim,
- go bad,
- hobo,
- victimize,
- debunk,
- puzzle out,
- exchange,
- drink down,
- desert,
- work on,
- booster,
- break,
- take a shit,
- desolate,
- spue,
- gabble,
- treasonably,
- wacky,
- refer,
- fictive,
- mete out,
- exploit.
- hog cholera,
- Bloody flux,
- fail,
- broken wind,
- anthrax,
- false,
- Cozener,
- milk sickness,
- forsake,
- swindler,
- mendacious,
- renegade,
- grass,
- loco disease,
- fraudulent,
- cop,
- loco,
- pip,
- so-and-so,
- Malignant Catarrh,
- sharper,
- polecat,
- jackleg,
- scab over,
- Paratuberculosis,
- chiseler,
- emit,
- denote,
- stinker,
- Diddler,
- blind staggers,
- crumb,
- Charbon,
- defaulter,
- faker,
- fink,
- snob,
- informer,
- deserter,
- deceive,
- declare,
- cheater,
- distemper,
- sheep rot,
- proselyte,
- snitch,
- staggers,
- tramp,
- hoof-and-mouth disease,
- hydrophobia,
- convert,
- pickpocket,
- discover,
- deceitful,
- leg,
- gypper,
- blabber,
- cattle plague,
- bum,
- megrims,
- heaves,
- splenic fever,
- corrupt,
- cheat,
- devious,
- betray,
- gyp artist,
- expose,
- flimflammer,
- malignant pustule,
- puke,
- morsel,
- mugwump,
- dishonest,
- symptomatic anthrax,
- blackwater,
- skinner,
- gapes,
- denounce,
- crafty,
- confess,
- two-timer,
- mange,
- skunk,
- stag,
- rook,
- abandon,
- defecate,
- cuckold,
- scrapie,
- deceptive,
- red fox,
- recidivist,
- apostate,
- Knobstick,
- frequent,
- Git,
- crawfish,
- ambidextrous,
- shop,
- crap,
- plant disease,
- bighead,
- Defrauder,
- traitor,
- betrayer,
- give out,
- Thimblerigger,
- squealer,
- divulge,
- backslider,
- crooked,
- rotter,
- bottom,
- dishonorable,
- Water leg,
- malignant catarrhal fever,
- convey,
- stem canker,
- locoism,
- hustler,
- slicker,
- scabies,
- pseudotuberculosis,
- tell on,
- welsher,
- card sharper,
- black leg,
- squeal,
- lowlife,
- rot,
- shoplifter,
- buttocks,
- mad staggers,
- black quarter,
- duplicitous,
- rinderpest,
- liver rot,
- underhand,
- rogue,
- bit,
- shit,
- pervert,
- Stringhalt,
- foot-and-mouth disease,
- roundworms,
- dog hook,
- rabies,
- aphthous fever,
- quarter-evil,
- heartworm,
- juggler,
- turn coat,
- stinkpot,
- ass,
- Feline Leukemia,
- distribute,
- cheat on,
- crook,
- milzbrand,
- misbegotten,
- fallacious,
- trickster,
- glanders,
- artful dodger,
- give away,
- vomit,
- scum bag.
How to use "Blackleg" in context?
There are many synonyms for the term "blackleg," but the most common is "scoffer." The implication is that this person is not only unenlightened, but also contemptuous of notions that are considered serious or important. Scoffers are often described as curmudgeonly old men or women who live to pick a fight or who are simply careless and irresponsible.
The term has a long history, and its origins can be traced back to the seafaring communities of the Northern Atlantic.
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