Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - blunder
Blunder
blunder
n. & v. --n. a clumsy or foolish mistake, esp. an important one. --v. 1 intr. make a blunder; act clumsily or ineptly. 2 tr. deal incompetently with; mismanage. 3 intr. move about blindly or clumsily; stumble. Derivatives blunderer n. blunderingly adv. Etymology: ME prob. f. Scand.: cf. MSw blundra shut the eyes
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I. verb (~ed; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English blundren, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse blunda to shut one's eyes, doze, Norwegian dialect blundra Date: 14th century intransitive verb to move unsteadily or confusedly, to make a mistake through stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness, transitive verb to utter stupidly, confusedly, or thoughtlessly, to make a stupid, careless, or thoughtless mistake in, ~er noun ~ingly adverb II. noun Date: 1693 a gross error or mistake resulting usually from stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness, see: error ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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