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English Edit

 
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Pronunciation Edit

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /blʌnt/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌnt

Etymology 1 Edit

From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt (attested in the derivative Blunta (male personal name) (> English surnames Blunt, Blount)), probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (to doze) (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde).

Adjective Edit

blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)

  1. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
    • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: []”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
      The murderous knife was dull and blunt.
    • 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:
      The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess[1]:
      The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
  2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
    The blunt admission that he had never liked my company.
  4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
  5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
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Noun Edit

blunt (plural blunts)

  1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
  2. A short needle with a strong point.
  3. (smoking, slang, US) A marijuana cigar.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette
    • 2004, Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home [] , Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 461:
      [] to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!”
  4. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:money
  5. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
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Etymology 2 Edit

From Middle English blunten, blonten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb Edit

blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)

  1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
  2. (figurative) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of
    It blunted my appetite.
    My feeling towards her have been blunted.
    • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, in BBC[2]:
      That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.
    • 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
      I'm not saying that thousands of folk are not being inconvenienced, because they most certainly are, but the impact of strikes on government has been blunted.
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Old French Edit

Etymology Edit

From Frankish *blund, from Proto-Germanic *blundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ-.

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Adjective Edit

blunt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular blunde)

  1. Alternative form of blont

Polish Edit

Etymology Edit

Unadapted borrowing from English blunt.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /blant/
  • Rhymes: -ant
  • Syllabification: blunt

Noun Edit

blunt m anim

  1. (slang) Alternative spelling of blant

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Further reading Edit

  • blunt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • blunt in Polish dictionaries at PWN