blunt

• adj.鈍い、鋭くない；硬い；鈍い
• vt.鈍くする
• n. （鈍い）人名；（英）ブレント

語源はblindと同じ。 もともとは目が見えない、鈍感、精神遅滞。後に、物が鈍ることを指すようになった。

blunt

blunt: [12] Blunt originally meant ‘dull, obtuse, foolish’ in English, and it has been speculated that behind it there lay an earlier ‘dull of sight’, linking the word with blind. A possible source would be a derivative of Old Norse blunda ‘shut one’s eyes’ (whence probably also blunder). The application of blunt to dull, non-sharp edges or blades developed in the 14th century.
=> blind, blunder

blunt (adj.)

c. 1200, "dull, obtuse," perhaps from or related to Old Norse blundra (see blunder (v.)). Of tools or weapons, late 14c. Meaning "abrupt of speech or manner" is from 1580s.

blunt (v.)

late 14c., from blunt (adj.). Related: Blunted; blunting.

blunt (n.)

street slang for "marijuana and tobacco cigar" (easier to pass around, easier to disguise, and the stimulant in the tobacco enhances the high from the pot) surfaced c. 1993, but is said to have originated among Jamaicans in New York City in the early 1980s; from Phillies Blunt brand cigars; see blunt (adj.), which has been used of certain cigars since 19c.

Users say that the Phillies Blunt brand produces less harsh-tasting or sweeter smoke. The leaf wrapper of a Phillies Blunt is strong enough to hold together through the manipulations of making a blunt. Other brands fall apart. [http://nepenthes.lycaeum.org/Drugs/THC/Smoke/blunts.html]

1. The blunt comment made Richard laugh in spite of himself.

率直な言葉にリチャードは思わず大笑いした。

2.This Elizabeth Blunt 、BBC、West Africa.

BBCのエリザベス?ブロントが西アフリカでお届けします。

3.She couldn 't stand his blunt ，graceless manner.

彼女は彼の唐突さと粗野さに耐えられなかった。

4.This pencil 's blunt ！

この鉛筆は尖っていない！

5.The axe is too blunt to cut down the tree.

斧が鈍すぎて木を切り倒すことができない.