SwingDJs

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.’

'Fowling piece' and 'blunderbuss' - you sure learn a lot of obscure English firearms vocabulary from listening to swing music