blunderbuss
pronunciation
How to pronounce blunderbuss in British English:
UK [ˈblʌndəbʌs]
How to pronounce blunderbuss in American English:
US [ˈblʌndərbʌs]
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- Noun:
- a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle
Word Origin
- blunderbuss (n.)
- 1650s, from Dutch donderbus, from donder "thunder" (Middle Dutch doner, donder, from Proto-Germanic *thunaraz; see thunder (n.)) + bus "gun" (originally "box, tube"); altered by resemblance to blunder.
Example
- 1. You 'll take me blunderbuss when you pry it from my cold dead hands !
- 2. You 'll take me blunderbuss we ye pry it from my cold , dead hands !
- 3. For a start , it appears to be a crude piece of blunderbuss software .
- 4. The government fired a blunderbuss of money at it , with six different categories of intervention ( see table ) .
- 5. Mr obama has rightly resisted this as being a blunderbuss response that risks further hurting the us housing market by stopping banks selling many vacant homes .