blunderland

noun
/ˈblʌndəˌlænd/UK/ˈblʌndɚˌlænd/US

Etymology

Blend of blunder + wonderland.

  1. derived from *lendʰ-
  2. inherited from *landą
  3. inherited from *land
  4. inherited from land
  5. inherited from lond
  6. compounded as wonderland — “wonder + land
  7. compounded as blunderland — “blunder + wonderland

Definitions

  1. Something that does not live up to the name wonderland

    Something that does not live up to the name wonderland; a place where things go wrong.

    • This is how we have treated the training of the spirit of inquisitiveness, leading our future on novel paths, but leading to a 'blunderland'.
    • But by the end of her academic life, unlike Alice, she felt more in a blunderland; a consequence she said of the overall degradation of the environment.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blunderland. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA