blunt

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Etymology [edit]

Possibly from Old Norse blundra.

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Adjective [edit]

blunt (comparative blunter, superlative bluntest)

  1. Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; not sharp.
  2. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
  3. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
  4. Hard to impress or penetrate.
  5. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive

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Noun [edit]

blunt (plural blunts)

  1. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
  2. A short needle with a strong point.
  3. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
    • 2005: to make his point, lead rapper B-Real fired up a blunt in front of the cameras and several hundred thousand people and announced, “I'm taking a hit for every one of y'all!” — Martin Torgoff, Can't Find My Way Home (Simon & Schuster 2005, p. 461)
  4. (UK, slang, archaic, uncountable) money
    • Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
      Down he goes to the Commons, to see the lawyer and draw the blunt []

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Verb [edit]

blunt (third-person singular simple present blunts, present participle blunting, simple past and past participle blunted)

  1. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
  2. (figuratively) To repress or weaken, as any appetite, desire, or power of the mind; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of; as, to blunt the feelings.
    • 2011 January 12, Saj Chowdhury, “Liverpool 2 - 1 Liverpool”, BBC:
      That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit.

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Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Germanic *blundaz

Adjective [edit]

blunt m (feminine blunde)

  1. blonde