blunderland

English

Pronunciation

Etymology

Blend of blunder +‎ wonderland.

Noun

blunderland (plural blunderlands)

  1. (humorous, derogatory) Something that does not live up to the name wonderland; a place where things go wrong.
    • 1998, Architecture + Design:
      This is how we have treated the training of the spirit of inquisitiveness, leading our future on novel paths, but leading to a 'blunderland'.
    • 2021 April 22, Anu Kapur, Life as a Geographer in India, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 1988:
      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.

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