Bludgeon vs Shillelagh - What's the difference?
bludgeon | shillelagh | Related terms |
A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
Bludgeon is a related term of shillelagh.
As nouns the difference between bludgeon and shillelagh
is that bludgeon is a short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end while shillelagh is a wooden (especially oaken) club ending with a large knob.As a verb bludgeon
is to strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.bludgeon
English
Noun
(en noun)- We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon .
See also
* truncheonVerb
(en verb)- The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
- Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.