bludgeon

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.

Verb

1. To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
2. To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.

Sinonieme

club

cudgel

truncheon

stick

shillelagh

baton

bat

🦇

flail

blackjack

coerce

staff

compel

billy

shillalah

cane

strike

terrorize

thrash

bully

tyrannize

intimidate

hector

force

lathi

mallet

browbeat

menace

pound

💷

dragoon

pressure

beat

hound

harry

harass

poop

💩

pummel

rod

sap

scold

swaggerer

whomp

work over

billystick

knobstick

stout stick

bang out

black jack

short dub

batter

beat to death

beat up

beetle

🪲

bejewel

belabour

biff

billy club

black-jack

break up

chop

clobber

clod

constrain

deck

gavel

hack

hammer

🔨

hew

hew out

idiot

impel

lam

lumber

mace

maul

moron

necessitate

nightstick

obligate

paste

pick

⛏️

pole

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈblʌd͡ʒ.ən/

Etimologie (Engels)

First attested in 1730. Origin uncertain, perhaps of Cornish origin (recorded as blogon c. 1450) or from Middle French bougeon, a diminutive of bouge (“club, stick”).