bludgeon

February 12, 2005 | 0 Comments

noun: short heavy club, usually of wood, that is thicker or loaded at one end
verb: to hit with or as if with a heavy club

This is not the kind of word that I would typically use as a word of the day, but it rhymes so nicely with dudgeon, and I'm a sucker for rhymes.

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