dazzler
(ˈdæzlə(r))
[-er.]
1. One who dazzles: said e.g. of a ‘showy’ woman. Chiefly slang or colloq.
| a 1800 Cowper tr. Andreini's Adam v. ix. Wks. 1837 X. 383 Thou Lord immutable..Thou dazzler and obscurer of the sun! 1838 Dickens Nich. Nick. xxxvi, Mr. Lumbey shook his head with great solemnity, as though to imply that he supposed she must have been rather a dazzler. 1889 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 27 Sept., [He] appears to be one of these dazzlers. He succeeded in dazzling two of the jury. |
2. A dazzling blow. slang.
| 1883 Reade Many a Slip in Harper's Mag. Dec. 132/1 The carter..received a dazzler with the left, followed by a heavy right-hander. |