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Blunderbore

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A giant, brother of Cormoran, who put Jack the Giant Killer to bed and intended to kill him; but Jack thrust a billet of wood into the bed, and crept under the bedstead. Blunderbore came with his club and broke the billet to pieces, but was much amazed at seeing Jack next morning at breakfast-time. When his astonishment was abated he asked Jack how he had slept. “Pretty well,” said the Cornish hero, “but once or twice I fancied a mouse tickled me with its tail.” This increased the giant’s surprise. Hasty pudding being provided for breakfast, Jack stowed away such huge stores in a bag concealed within his dress that the giant could not keep pace with him. Jack cut the bag open to relieve “the gorge,” and the giant, to effect the same relief, cut his throat and thus killed himself. (See Giants.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Blue Ruin
Blue Squadron (The)
Blue Stocking
Blue Talk
Blue Wonder (A)
Blue and Red
Blue and Yellow (The)
Blues (The)
Bluff (To)
Bluff Harry or Hal
Blunderbore
Blunderbuss
Blunt
Blunt (Major-General)
Blurt out (To)
Blush
Bo or Boh
Bo-tree
Boa
Boanergēs (sons of thunder)
Boar

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