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blunderbuss

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1. blunderbuss - Noun

2. blunderbuss - Verb

Meaning

A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. Samuel Johnson

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things. Jack White

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