blunderbuss
Meaning of blunderbuss
noun
- a short large-bored gun firing balls or slugs.
- an action or way of doing something regarded as lacking in subtlety and precision.
economists resort too quickly to the blunderbuss of regulation
mid 17th century: alteration (by association with blunder) of Dutch donderbus, literally ‘thunder gun’.
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Hyphenation of blunderbuss
blun-der-buss
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- blunderbuss is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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