blunder

From Middle English blunder, blonder (“disturbance, strife”), from Middle English blundren, blondren (verb), which itself is partly from Middle English blondren, a frequentative form of Middle English blonden, blanden ("to mix; mix up"; see blend); 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”). Related to English blind.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈblʌn.də(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈblʌn.dɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌndə(ɹ)

blunder (plural blunders)

1. A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

• (error): blooper, boo-boo, error, faux pas, flub, fluff, fumble, gaffe, goof, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko

• blundersome

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

1. (intransitive) To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.

   to blunder in preparing a medical prescription

2. (intransitive) To move blindly or clumsily.
   • Goldsmith

     I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.

   • Dryden

     blunders on, and staggers every pace

3. (transitive) To cause to make a mistake.
   • Ditton

     To blunder an adversary.

4. (transitive) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
   • Stillingfleet

     He blunders and confounds all these together.

• bundler

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

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blunder m (plural blunders, diminutive blundertje n)

1. blunder

• blunderen

blunder

1. first-person singular present indicative of blunderen
2. imperative of blunderen

• brulden

blunder c

1. blunder; clumsy mistake