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#16 Post 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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#17 Post 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 :shock:

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