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BLUNT
Surname or Lastname
English
English : nickname for someone with fair hair or a light complexion, from Anglo-Norman French blunt ‘blond’ (Old French blund, blond, of Germanic origin).English : nickname for a stupid person, from Middle English blunt, blont ‘dull’, ‘stupid’ (probably from Old English blinnan ‘to stop’, or Old Norse blundr ‘sleep’).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Blunt.
Boy/Male
Biblical
Congregation, wrinkle, bluntness.
Biblical
Congregation, wrinkle; bluntness
Boy/Male
Shakespearean
King Henry IV, Part 1' Sir Walter Blunt. 'King Henry IV, Part 2' One of the King's party.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : perhaps a variant spelling of Blundell, a diminutive of Blunt 1.Swedish : ornamental name composed of the elements Blond + -ell, a common suffix of Swedish surnames, taken from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly Lancashire)
English (chiefly Lancashire) : from a diminutive of Blunt.Swedish : ornamental name from Blund (of unexplained origin) + the suffix -ell, taken from the Latin adjectival ending -elius.
Boy/Male
English
One of the King's Party
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a place used for archery practice, from Middle English butte ‘mark for archery’, ‘target’, ‘goal’. In the Middle Ages archery practice was a feudal obligation, and every settlement had its practice area.English : topographic name from Middle English butte ‘strip of land abutting on a boundary’, ‘short strip or ridge at right angles to other strips in a common field’.English : from Middle English butte, bott ‘butt’, ‘cask’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for a cooper or as a nickname possibly for a heavy drinker or for a large, fat man.English : from a Middle English personal name, But(t), of unknown origin, perhaps originally a nickname meaning ‘short and stumpy’, and akin to late Middle English butt ‘thick end’, ‘stump’, ‘buttock’ (of Germanic origin).German and English : in both Middle Low German and Middle English the word but(te) denoted various types of marine fish, originally a fish with a blunt head, for example halibut (German Heilbutt) or turbot (German Steinbutt), and the surname may in some cases be a metonymic occupational name for a seller of fish or salt fish.Kashmiri : variant of Bhatt.Robert Butt came from Kent, England, to NC in 1640.
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v. t.
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.
n.
A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy.
n.
A pen with a short, blunt nib.
v. t.
To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Blunt
v. t.
A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
a.
Somewhat blunt.
superl.
Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.
n.
A blunt lance head used in the joust.
a.
Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
v. t.
To obtund or blunt, as acrimonious substances, or sharp particles.
n.
A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.
n.
The moonfish, or bluntnosed shiner.
n.
A sewing needle having a very slender point; a needle of the most pointed of the three grades, blunts, betweens, and sharps.
v. t.
To deprive of the edge; to blunt.
imp. & p. p.
of Blunt
v. t.
A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil.
adv.
In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
a.
Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
n.
The short blunt part of anything after larger part has been broken off or used up; hence, anything short and thick; as, the stub of a pencil, candle, or cigar.