blunderbussn.

Brit.

/ˈblʌndəbʌs/, U.S.

/ˈbləndərˌbəs/

Forms: Also 1600s blunderbush, 1600s–1700s blunderbus.

Etymology: < Dutch donderbus with same meaning, < donder thunder + bus gun (originally box, tube); perverted in form after blunder (perhaps with some allusion to its blind or random firing).

1. A short gun with a large bore, firing many balls or slugs, and capable of doing execution within a limited range without exact aim. (Now superseded by other firearms.)

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > blunderbuss

blunderbuss1654

trombone1754

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xi. 244 In the antient wars, before these Bombards, Blunderbushes, Petars.

1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 25 A blunderbush hang'd at his back, Of terrible report and crack.

1682 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 164 Two of which fired two blunderbusses at him, charg'd with severall shott.

1774 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 60 Lord Berkeley..attacked by a Highwayman..shot him with a blunderbuss.

1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Eighth, Ninth & Last Let. x. 49 A tithe proctor in Ireland collects his tithes with a blunderbuss.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 329 A tremendous old brass blunderbuss charged up to the muzzle with slugs.

2. transferred.

†a. A blustering noisy talker (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person

jettera1400

flirdom?a1500

facerc1500

termagant1508

rutterkina1529

bellomy1535

bystour1535

roister1549

swash1549

rush-buckler1551

roisterkin1553

swashbuckler1560

dash-buckler1567

swinge-buckler?1577

whiffler1581

huff-snuff1582

swish-swash1582

fixnet1583

swag1588

swasher?1589

kill-cow1590

roister-doister1592

dagger1597

flaunting Fabian1598

tisty-tosty1598

huff-cap1600

swaggerer1600

burgullian1601

huff-muff1602

tear-cat1606

blusterer1609

wag-feather1611

wind-cutter1611

bilbo-lorda1625

tearer1633

cacafuegoa1640

bravado1643

Hector1655

scaramouch1662

swashado1663

huffer1664

bluster-mastera1670

Drawcansir1672

bully huff1673

huff1674

belswagger1680

valienton1681

blunderbuss1685

Draw can bully1698

bouncer1764

Bobadil1771

bounce1819

pistol1828

sacripant1829

hufty1847

bucko1883

1685 Answ. Duke of Buckingham on Lib. Consc. 23 Securing the Person of his Prince, and the Peace of his Country from Religious Rumbalds, and Conventicling Blunderbusses.

1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 129 Those Blunderbusses, that talk loud and long.

b. A blundering fellow, a blunderhead.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun]

mafflardc1450

juffler15..

dromedary1567

madbrain1570

batie buma1586

addle-head1592

blunderkin1596

nit1598

addle-pate1601

hash1655

blunderbuss1692

blunderhead1692

shaffles1703

fog-pate1732

blunderer1741

puzzle-pate1761

slouch1767

étourdi1768

botch1769

puddle1782

bumble1789

scatter-brain1790

addle-brain1799

puzzle-head1815

shaffler1828

chowderhead1833

muddlehead1833

muddler1833

flounderer1836

duffer1842

muddle-pate1844

plug1848

incompetent1866

schlemiel1868

dinlo1873

drumble-dore1881

hodmandod1881

dub1887

prune1895

foozler1896

bollock1916

messer1926

Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942

spaz1965

spastic1981

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. Pref. p. xxi Not such a hair-brain'd Blunderbuss as you.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. 475 He must be a numskull, not to say a beetle, nor yet a blunderbuss.

†3. ? A blunder; trouble. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder

blunder1706

blunderbuss1726

floor1841

bull1846

howler1872

atrocity1878

break1884

bloomer1889

boner1912

bish1937

black1939

blue1941

cock-up1946

piss-up1950

screw-up1950

blob1952

1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xlviii. 259 More horrors still! Yea, verily! & a new blunderbuss into the bargain.

4. attributive.

ΚΠ

1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele II. 76 The Agbary or blunderbuss-women are the biggest and strongest of the force.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

blunderbussv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: blunderbuss n.

Etymology: < blunderbuss n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈblunderbuss.

To shoot with a blunderbuss.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with missile

shootc893

shoot1297

feather1415

to shoot (a person, thing) through1535

daga1572

pistol1598

lace1622

to shoot‥through and througha1648

pink1661

pop1762

plump1785

wing1802

drill1808

rifle1821

leg1829

hole1847

shot1855

blunderbuss1870

riddle1874

pip1900

slot1987

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > use or operation of small arms > use small arms [verb (transitive)] > shoot with blunderbuss

blunderbuss1870

1870 Daily News 4 June The risk of being pistolled or blunderbussed by a patriot.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

单词	blunderbuss
释义	blunderbussn. Brit. /ˈblʌndəbʌs/, U.S. /ˈbləndərˌbəs/ Forms: Also 1600s blunderbush, 1600s–1700s blunderbus. Etymology: < Dutch donderbus with same meaning, < donder thunder + bus gun (originally box, tube); perverted in form after blunder (perhaps with some allusion to its blind or random firing). 1. A short gun with a large bore, firing many balls or slugs, and capable of doing execution within a limited range without exact aim. (Now superseded by other firearms.) ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > blunderbuss blunderbuss1654 trombone1754 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xi. 244 In the antient wars, before these Bombards, Blunderbushes, Petars. 1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 25 A blunderbush hang'd at his back, Of terrible report and crack. 1682 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 164 Two of which fired two blunderbusses at him, charg'd with severall shott. 1774 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 60 Lord Berkeley..attacked by a Highwayman..shot him with a blunderbuss. 1808 ‘P. Plymley’ Eighth, Ninth & Last Let. x. 49 A tithe proctor in Ireland collects his tithes with a blunderbuss. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 329 A tremendous old brass blunderbuss charged up to the muzzle with slugs. 2. transferred. †a. A blustering noisy talker (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person jettera1400 flirdom?a1500 facerc1500 termagant1508 rutterkina1529 bellomy1535 bystour1535 roister1549 swash1549 rush-buckler1551 roisterkin1553 swashbuckler1560 dash-buckler1567 swinge-buckler?1577 whiffler1581 huff-snuff1582 swish-swash1582 fixnet1583 swag1588 swasher?1589 kill-cow1590 roister-doister1592 dagger1597 flaunting Fabian1598 tisty-tosty1598 huff-cap1600 swaggerer1600 burgullian1601 huff-muff1602 tear-cat1606 blusterer1609 wag-feather1611 wind-cutter1611 bilbo-lorda1625 tearer1633 cacafuegoa1640 bravado1643 Hector1655 scaramouch1662 swashado1663 huffer1664 bluster-mastera1670 Drawcansir1672 bully huff1673 huff1674 belswagger1680 valienton1681 blunderbuss1685 Draw can bully1698 bouncer1764 Bobadil1771 bounce1819 pistol1828 sacripant1829 hufty1847 bucko1883 1685 Answ. Duke of Buckingham on Lib. Consc. 23 Securing the Person of his Prince, and the Peace of his Country from Religious Rumbalds, and Conventicling Blunderbusses. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 129 Those Blunderbusses, that talk loud and long. b. A blundering fellow, a blunderhead. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun] mafflardc1450 juffler15.. dromedary1567 madbrain1570 batie buma1586 addle-head1592 blunderkin1596 nit1598 addle-pate1601 hash1655 blunderbuss1692 blunderhead1692 shaffles1703 fog-pate1732 blunderer1741 puzzle-pate1761 slouch1767 étourdi1768 botch1769 puddle1782 bumble1789 scatter-brain1790 addle-brain1799 puzzle-head1815 shaffler1828 chowderhead1833 muddlehead1833 muddler1833 flounderer1836 duffer1842 muddle-pate1844 plug1848 incompetent1866 schlemiel1868 dinlo1873 drumble-dore1881 hodmandod1881 dub1887 prune1895 foozler1896 bollock1916 messer1926 Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942 spaz1965 spastic1981 1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. Pref. p. xxi Not such a hair-brain'd Blunderbuss as you. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. 475 He must be a numskull, not to say a beetle, nor yet a blunderbuss. †3. ? A blunder; trouble. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder blunder1706 blunderbuss1726 floor1841 bull1846 howler1872 atrocity1878 break1884 bloomer1889 boner1912 bish1937 black1939 blue1941 cock-up1946 piss-up1950 screw-up1950 blob1952 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xlviii. 259 More horrors still! Yea, verily! & a new blunderbuss into the bargain. 4. attributive. ΚΠ 1864 R. F. Burton Mission to Gelele II. 76 The Agbary or blunderbuss-women are the biggest and strongest of the force. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blunderbussv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: blunderbuss n. Etymology: < blunderbuss n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈblunderbuss. To shoot with a blunderbuss. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound > wound with missile shootc893 shoot1297 feather1415 to shoot (a person, thing) through1535 daga1572 pistol1598 lace1622 to shoot‥through and througha1648 pink1661 pop1762 plump1785 wing1802 drill1808 rifle1821 leg1829 hole1847 shot1855 blunderbuss1870 riddle1874 pip1900 slot1987 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > use or operation of small arms > use small arms [verb (transitive)] > shoot with blunderbuss blunderbuss1870 1870 Daily News 4 June The risk of being pistolled or blunderbussed by a patriot. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1654v.1870
随便看	as sure as as sure as a club as sure as a gun as sure as check as sure as death as sure as eggs is eggs as sure as fate as sure as god made little apples as sure as hell as surely as as sweet as pie as swift as thought as swith as swithe as as swithe as als swither as that comes to as the actress said to the bishop as the bishop said to the actress as the case may be as the crow flies as the devil as the devil looking over lincoln as the devil looks over lincoln as the devil loves holy water as the dickens