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blunder

English

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle English blundren, blondren (verb) and blunder, blonder (“disturbance, strife”), from the verb; partly from Middle English blondren, a frequentative form of Middle English blonden, blanden ("to mix; mix up"; corresponding to blend +‎ -er); and partly from Middle English blundren, a frequentative form of Middle English blunden (“to stagger; stumble”), from Old Norse blunda (“to shut the eyes; doze”). Cognates include Norwegian blunda (“to shut the eyes; doze”), dialectal Swedish blundra (“to act blindly or rashly”), Danish blunde (“to blink”) or blunde (“to take a nap”), Icelandic blunda (“to nap; doze”). Related to English blind.

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈblʌn.də(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈblʌn.dɚ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: blun‧der

Noun

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blunder (plural blunders)

  1. A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
  2. (chess) A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight.
    Synonym: (symbol) ??
  3. (obsolete) Confusion; bewilderment; trouble; disturbance; clamour. [ca. 1375–1774]

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • → Dutch: blunder
  • → Swedish: blunder

Translations

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Verb

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blunder (third-person singular simple present blunders, present participle blundering, simple past and past participle blundered)

  1. (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid. [from 1706]
    to blunder in preparing a medical prescription
    1. (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
    2. (chess, transitive) To make a bad move and thereby cause the loss of (a piece).
  2. (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way. [from ca. 1386, figurative sense from 1641]
  3. (transitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
    • 1714, Humphry Ditton, A discourse concerning the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
      To blunder an adversary.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
    • 1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome:
      He blunders and confounds all these together.

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Descendants

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Translations

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References

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Anagrams

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Danish

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Verb

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blunder

  1. present of blunde

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English blunder, from Middle English blonder, blundur (“disturbance, strife”), from Old Norse blunda (“to shut the eyes”). Related to blind.

Noun

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blunder m (plural blunders, diminutive blundertje n)

  1. a blunder, serious error or mistake
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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blunder

  1. inflection of blunderen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Anagrams

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Swedish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English blunder. According to SO attested since 1837.

Noun

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blunder c

  1. blunder (clumsy mistake)
  2. (chess) A blunder; a very bad move, especially caused by some tactical oversight.
    Synonyms: ??, bortsättning, misstag

Declension

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Declension of blunder
nominative genitive
singular indefinite blunder blunders
definite blundern blunderns
plural indefinite blundrar blundrars
definite blundrarna blundrarnas

See also

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  • tabbe (“blunder; mistake”)

Further reading

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