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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
blunderbuss
 
SYLLABICATION:blun·der·buss
PRONUNCIATION:  blndr-bs
NOUN: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.
ETYMOLOGY:Alteration of Dutch donderbus : donder, thunder (from Middle Dutch doner; see (s)ten- in Appendix I) + bus, gun (from Middle Dutch busse, tube, from Latin buxis, box; see box1).
 
 
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