error of a gross kind. It supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness, ignorance,
or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of ideas.
Blunderbuss
(Blun"der*buss) n. [Either fr. blunder + D. bus tube, box, akin to G. büchse box, gun, E.
box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus (literally) thunder box, gun, musket.]
1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do
execution without exact aim.
2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
Blunderer
(Blun"der*er) n. One who is apt to blunder.
Blunderhead
(Blun"der*head`) n. [Blunder + head.] A stupid, blundering fellow.
Blundering
(Blun"der*ing), a. Characterized by blunders.
Blunderingly
(Blun"der*ing*ly), adv. In a blundering manner.
Blunge
(Blunge) v. t. To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.
Blunger
(Blun"ger) n. [Corrupted from plunger.] A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for miing
the clay in potteries; a plunger. Tomlinson.
Blunging
(Blun"ging) n. The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger. Tomlinson.
Blunt
(Blunt) a. [Cf. Prov. G. bludde a dull or blunt knife, Dan. blunde to sleep, Sw. & Icel. blunda; or
perh. akin to E. blind.]
1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
Shak.
2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; stupid; — opposed to acute.
His wits are not so blunt.
Shak.
3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
"Hiding his bitter jests in blunt behavior." "A plain, blunt man." Shak.
4. Hard to impress or penetrate. [R.]
I find my heart hardened and blunt to new impressions.
Pope.
Blunt is much used in composition, as blunt-edged, blunt-sighted, blunt-spoken.
Syn. — Obtuse; dull; pointless; curt; short; coarse; rude; brusque; impolite; uncivil.
Blunt
(Blunt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blunting.]
1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. Shak.
2. To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or
susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
Blunt
(Blunt), n.
