blondering - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Dictionary Entry

blǒndering ger.

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Forms	blǒndering ger.
Etymology

Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)

1.

(a) with ~, blindly, without apparent purpose or direction; (b) ?stupid behavior, blundering.

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Associated quotations

a

a1425(?a1400) PCounsel.(Hrl 674)168/1 : Sodenly..þou leuyst bareyn in þe bote, blowyn with blundryng, now heder now þeder.

b

(1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)41 : Blunderynge, or blunt warkynge: Hebefaccio.

Supplemental Materials (draft)

a1475 GLeg.Suppl.Michael (Lamb 72)278/129 : But ar it comyth thourgh it makyth yn the water a gret blondyryng, as though a man toke a barre of iron brennyng hote and put hit into the water it wolde make a gret noyse.

Note: Editor: "blondyryng: disturbance, not in MED in this sense, see blondering.

Note: Cf. OED blundering, n., sense 2. 'Confusion, disturbance.' First attested a1529.

Note: New sense.