bleeder

Meaning

1. A person who is easily made to bleed, or who bleeds in unusually large amounts, particularly a hemophiliac.
2. A blood vessel that requires cauterization etc. to stop it from bleeding during surgery.
3. Anything that saps a resource produced by something else.
4. A valve designed to release a small amount of excess pressure from a system.
5. (slang) A troublesome fellow or thing; a blighter.
6. Synonym of scratch hit
7. A person who menstruates (used in the context of transgender inclusivity).

Synonyms

haemophiliac

hemophiliac

bleeding cock

haemophile

hemophile

bleeding cock

stinker

steam trap

pressure divider

blackmailer

potential divider

voltage divider

discharge piping

step attenuator

volt box

extortioner

dropping resistor

scum

Hyphenated as

bleed‧er

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈblidɚ/

Etymology

From bleed + -er.