Blunderbuss: Definition and part of speech

Blunderbuss

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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