[f. as prec. + -ER1.]
† 1. One who flounders about blindly in his work; a blind or stupid worker. Obs.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 41. Blunderer or blunt warkere, hebefactor, hebeficus.
1523. Garl. Laurel (R.). What blundrer is yonder that playeth diddil?
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 853. Meer Blunderers in that Atomick Physiology.
2. One who makes gross mistakes by incompetence or negligence.
1741. H. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann (1834), I. xiii. 41. ‘Take care you don’t get my old name.’ ‘What’s that?’ ‘Blunderer.’
1782. Cowper, Progr. Err., 539. Your blund’rer is as sturdy as a rock.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 87. At best a blunderer, and too probably a traitor.
