English
Etymology
From blackmail + -er.
Noun
blackmailer (plural blackmailers)
- Someone who blackmails.
1981, Geoffrey Rips, Anne Janowitz, Nancy Joyce Peters, The Campaign against the underground press, page 33:This sex blackmailer and dryhanded public virgin was lunching secretly each week with the East Coast spokesman for organized crime, Frank Costello, in N.Y. Central Park's Tavern on the Green (according to the Time magazine obituary).
2018 April, Larry Zimmerman, “Cheap and Easily Manipulated Video”, in The Journal of the Kansas Bar Association[1], Topeka, Kan.: Kansas Bar Association, →ISSN, page 21:Ordinary people have already been face-swapped into videos for humorous or prank purposes and there is no reason to believe that abusers, harassers, stalkers, and blackmailers will not soon be face-swapping victims into compromising video as part of their arsenal.
Translations
someone who blackmails
- Armenian: շանտաժիստ (hy) (šantažist)
- Belarusian: шантажы́ст m (šantažýst), шантажы́стка f (šantažýstka), вымага́льнік m (vymahálʹnik), вымага́льніца f (vymahálʹnica), здзі́рца m (zdzírca)
- Bulgarian: изнудва́ч (bg) m (iznudváč), изнудва́чка f (iznudváčka)
- Catalan: xantatgista m or f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 敲詐者 / 敲诈者 (qiāozhàzhě), 勒索者 (lèsuǒzhě)
- Czech: vyděrač (cs) m, vyděračka f
- Danish: afpresser c, pengeafpresser c (for money)
- Dutch: chanteur (nl) m, afperser (nl) m
- Estonian: šantažeerija, väljapressija
- Finnish: kiristäjä (fi)
- French: maître-chanteur (fr) m, maitre-chanteur (fr) m, maître chanteur (fr) m
- Galician: chantaxista (gl) m or f
- Georgian: შანტაჟისტი (šanṭažisṭi)
- German: Erpresser (de) m, Erpresserin (de) f
- Hungarian: zsaroló (hu)
- Italian: ricattatore (it) m, ricattatrice f
- Japanese: 恐喝者 (きょうかつしゃ, kyōkatsusha)
- Korean: 공갈범(恐喝犯) (gonggalbeom)
- Macedonian: уценувач m (ucenuvač), уценувачка f (ucenuvačka)
- Polish: szantażysta (pl) m, szantażystka (pl) f
- Portuguese: chantagista (pt) m or f
- Russian: шантажи́ст (ru) m (šantažíst), шантажи́стка (ru) f (šantažístka), вымога́тель (ru) m (vymogátelʹ), вымога́тельница (ru) f (vymogátelʹnica)
- Slovak: vydierač m, vydieračka f
- Slovene: izsiljevalec m, izsiljevalka f
- Spanish: chantajista m or f
- Swedish: utpressare (sv) c
- Ukrainian: шантажи́ст m (šantažýst), шантажи́стка f (šantažýstka), вимага́ч m (vymaháč), вимага́чка f (vymaháčka), зди́рця m (zdýrcja), зди́рник m (zdýrnyk), зди́рниця f (zdýrnycja)
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