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zzzzoom
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by zzzzoom » Wed Oct 21, 2009 10:40 am
anton wrote:and later, "Mama, hand me my blunder bust" (!).
blunderbuss |ˈbləndərˌbəs|
noun historical
a short-barreled large-bored gun with a flared muzzle, used at short range.
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: alteration (by association with blunder ) of Dutch donderbus, literally ‘thunder gun.’
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anton
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by anton » Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:23 am
'Fowling piece' and 'blunderbuss' - you sure learn a lot of obscure English firearms vocabulary from listening to swing music
