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To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

One who is apt to blunder.

A stupid, blundering fellow.

Characterized by blunders.

In a blundering manner.

Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. [Obs.] So fell this buffle-headed giant. Gayton.

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility. And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, i…

Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder. Let me inform you, a toothless satire is as improper as a toothed sleek stone, and as bullish. Milton.

A clumsy or awkward performance; a botch; a gross blunder. Those errors and bungles which are committed. Cudworth.

A doing, or preperation, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.

To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong. [Obs.] If after Samuel's death the people had asked of God a king, they had not faulted. Latimer.

or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce. They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. Sir W. Hamilton.

in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton.

To wander; to go astray; to err; to blunder; -- used of mental processes. [R.] Byron.

The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder. This must have been the hallucination of the transcriber. Addison.

A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. [Obs.] Shak.

An instance of ignorance; a literary blunder. The many blunders and illiteracies of the first publishers of his [Shakespeare's] works. Pope.

A blundering preacher.

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]