maunder — English Dictionary

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Language

maunder

Pronunciations (5)

Verb

To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.

Examples

He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.

More examples (2)

"Not so fast, Lady Cecilia; not yet;" and now Louisa went on with a medical maundering. "As to low spirits, my dear Cecilia, I must say I agree with Sir Sib Pennyfeather, who tells me it is not mere common low spirits […]"

On the following day my friend's exhaustion had become so great that I began to fear his intelligence altogether broken up. But toward evening he briefly rallied, to maunder about many things, confounding in a sinister jumble the memories of the past weeks and those of bygone years.

What are you maundering about? He's going out from here a free man and whole—he's not going to die.

More examples (1)

Whether Edwina [mother of Tennessee Williams] had sufficient self-awareness to recognize her own maundering about (say) "seventeen! – gentleman callers!" is doubtful, but she was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
To wander or walk aimlessly.

Examples

[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.
To beg; to whine like a beggar.
Usage
- Intransitive
- Obsolete

Word forms

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