blunderbuss

blun·der·buss (bl

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1. A short musket of wide bore and flaring muzzle, formerly used to scatter shot at close range.

2. A person regarded as clumsy and stupid.

[Alteration of Dutch donderbus : donder, thunder (from Middle Dutch doner; see (s)ten- in Indo-European roots) + bus, gun (from Middle Dutch busse, tube, from Latin buxis, box; see box¹).]

blunderbuss [ˈblʌndəˌbʌs]

1. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) an obsolete short musket with large bore and flared muzzle, used to scatter shot at short range

2. Informal a clumsy unsubtle person

[changed (through the influence of blunder) from Dutch donderbus; from donder thunder + obsolete bus gun]

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Noun

blunderbuss - a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle

bell - the flared opening of a tubular device

musket - a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen

Translations

blunderbuss [ˈblʌndəbʌs] N → trabuco m

blunderbuss

n → Donnerbüchse f

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At that, I made sure the man started, for I heard the blunderbuss rattle on the window-sill; and it was after quite a long pause, and with a curious change of voice, that the next question followed:

Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context

"I ask your honour's pardon," cries Partridge; "I spoke on your account more than my own; for as to me, Heaven knows my circumstances are bad enough, and I am so far from being afraid, that I value a pistol, or a blunderbuss, or any such thing, no more than a pop-gun.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

I stood by for an instant, glorying in the thought that he could not hear me; the next, I saw what it was he was reaching up for - a bell-mouthed blunderbuss - and I knew the little devil for the impostor that he was.

Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context

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