bludgeoner

From bludgeon +‎ -er.

bludgeoner (plural bludgeoners)

1. One who bludgeons.
   • 1898, Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, The Dial: A Semi-monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information, page 8:

     If one is stopped on the highway, one would rather hand one's purse over to a courteous knight than to the rough-and-ready bludgeoner.

   • 2007, New York Post, October 27 Puppy-Killer Gets 9 Months in Cage

     An unemployed, coke-abusing dog-bludgeoner was sentenced yesterday to nine months in prison by a Manhattan Supreme Court judge who called the man's 2005 murder of his pet "unimaginable."

• bludger