blunder

Meanings

Noun

• A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
• A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight.

Verb

• To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
• To move blindly or clumsily.
• To cause to make a mistake.
• To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

Related

Similar words

• blooper, goof,

Origin

• ; and partly from Middle English blundren, a frequentative form of Middle English blunden, from Old Norse blunda.
• Cognates include Norwegian blunda, dialectal Swedish blundra, Danish blunde or blunde. Related to English blind.