blunderland
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈblʌndəˌlænd/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈblʌndɚˌlænd/
Etymology
Blend of blunder + wonderland.
Noun
blunderland (plural blunderlands)
- (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.