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单词 bludgeoner
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bludgeonerbludgeoneern.

Etymology: Formed as bludgeoned adj.1 + -er suffix1, -eer suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbludgeoner.
One who uses, or is armed with, a bludgeon.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > club or stick
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1842 R. Oastler Fleet Papers II. 8 They have set their hired bludgeoners at me.
1852 Blackwood's Mag. 224 Those brutal bludgeoneers..go out..in gangs to poach.
1855 A. Trollope Warden xiv. 219 Old St. Dunstan, with its bell-smiting bludgeoners, has been removed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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