blunderingest

Updated: May 4, 2025

I've brought you down here because you have the faculty of making men think they hate you then going out and working their heads off for you, because well, to be frank, you're the biggest, blunderingest, hardest-working blusterer that I ever saw and you're the only man who can pull me through. This road's in rotten shape, especially as concerns the roadbed.

- O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921