Associations to the word «Bludgeon»
Wiktionary
BLUDGEON, noun. A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
BLUDGEON, verb. (transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
BLUDGEON, verb. (transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
Dictionary definition
BLUDGEON, noun. A club used as a weapon.
BLUDGEON, verb. Overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club; "The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas".
BLUDGEON, verb. Strike with a club or a bludgeon.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.