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blunderbuss

[ bluhn-der-buhs ]

noun

  1. a short musket of wide bore with expanded muzzle to scatter shot, bullets, or slugs at close range.
  2. an insensitive, blundering person.


blunderbuss

/ 藞产濒蕦苍诲蓹藢产蕦蝉 /

noun

  1. an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range
  2. informal.
    a clumsy unsubtle person
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of blunderbuss1

1645鈥55; < Dutch donderbus (equivalent to donder thunder + bus gun, box 1 ) with donder replaced by blunder. See harquebus
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of blunderbuss1

C17: changed (through the influence of blunder ) from Dutch donderbus ; from donder thunder + obsolete bus gun
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But I find it hard to unequivocally pick who鈥檚 right and wrong when the choices are between Hamas, a terrorist organization, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose blunderbuss response to the Oct.

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Unfortunately, these mouthwashes are a blunderbuss approach to oral health, as they indiscriminately remove both good and bad bacteria and increase oral acidity, which can cause disease.

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Whereas Smith鈥檚 Jan. 6 indictment was an arrow aimed straight at Trump, Willis鈥 is a blunderbuss.

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It鈥檚 as if the nation鈥檚 founders in writing the 2nd Amendment鈥檚 right to bear arms in 1789 had specified the maximum muzzle size of a blunderbuss or fire power of a musket.

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He may not have pioneered the blunderbuss technique of deregulation, but he provided a model.

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