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So Meg reclined, with rubbers well hidden, and Jo went blund - ering away to the dining room, which she found after going into a china closet, and opening the door of a room where old Mr. Gardiner was taking a little private refreshment.

Little Women 1921

Maaltrost, syng med oss i lund dronningi i sælan blund:

An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

"The Knicks 'dwaning chances" were bewailed a year or two ago by a usually careful speaker (Peter Roberts, radio station WOR, New York), and he did not pause to correct the utterance (presumably a blund of dwindling and waning).

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The word floundering must have started as a fishy blund (not too infelicitous) for foundering (with blundering, according to the American Heritage Dictionary), but it has survived and has not completely supplanted the word foundering itself.

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I'm not sure that this qualifies as a blund or is merely a blunder, but it does, in a way, blend skim and skin.

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And connive in its normal misuse may involve a blund with contrive or conspire (or even confide, with reference to confidence men).

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"Scall -- er, call -- a skycab," which was not a very promising blund anyway.

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A blund can also occur in the semantic realm without involving telescoping or combining of phonic elements.

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When, however, a sports announcer (Bill Stern) said several decades ago that some award was symblematic of the highest excellence in college football, he was using a blund.

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But sometimes the blund is caught aborning and is corrected, cf., e.g.,

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