Bludgeoner vs Bludgeon - What's the difference?
bludgeoner | bludgeon |
One who bludgeons.
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* 1898 , Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne -
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.
Bludgeoner is a derived term of bludgeon.
As nouns the difference between bludgeoner and bludgeon
is that bludgeoner is one who bludgeons while bludgeon is a short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.As a verb bludgeon is
to strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.bludgeoner
English
Noun
(en noun)Puppy-Killer Gets 9 Months in Cage
- An unemployed, coke-abusing dog-bludgeoner was sentenced yesterday to nine months in prison by a Manhattan Supreme Court judge who called the man's 2005 murder of his pet "unimaginable."
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- If one is stopped on the highway, one would rather hand one's purse over to a courteous knight than to the rough-and-ready bludgeoner .
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.
