Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip. · A short needle with a strong point. · A marijuana cigar. · Money.
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp. · Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute. · Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting in the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech. · Hard to impress or penetrate.
From Middle English blunt, blont, from Old English *blunt, probably of North Germanic origin, possibly related to Old Norse blunda (“to shut eyes, to doze”), related to blind (> Icelandic blunda, Swedish blunda, Danish blunde). Compare the Scandinavian-German munitons term blind (“non-live, dummy”), opposite of skarp (“live”, literally, “sharp”): Swedish and Danish blind patron (“dummy round”), Danish blindt skud, German blinder schuss (“dummy shot”), blinde granate (“dummy grenade”).
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- Inherited-form mentionbluntenm
- Derivation mention*bluntang
- Cognate mentionblundanon · to shut eyes, to doze
- Cognate mentionblundais
- Cognate mentionblundasv
- Cognate mentionblundeda
- Cognate mentionblindt skudda
- Cognate mentionblinder schussde
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