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UK
/mˈɔːndɐ/
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VERB
- talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- wander aimlessly
How To Use maunder In A Sentence
- Otherwise this irritable maunderer would have known that, everything else apart, I am heartily tired of the responsibilities of youth under any such constant surveillance. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
- He was instead maundering about his room, thinking about silly things and wishing he knew what was going on.
- Tromp would maunder over and over of how Johannes Maartens and the cunies robbed the kings on Tabong Mountain, each embalmed in his golden coffin with an embalmed maid on either side; and of how these ancient proud ones crumbled to dust within the hour while the cunies cursed and sweated at junking the coffins. Chapter 15
- I looked up "maunder" and I think it would make an excellent stage name: -) 9: 28 PM skookumchick said ... Added to the Blogroll
- All very well to poetize and maunder about in quiet The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
- Every issue has a cluster of stories that vary wildly in style and tone, from maundering musings to cold silence, from freehand swirls to suffocating realism.
- It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion. Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
- He had seen convicts, after the guards had manhandled them, crippled in body for life, or left to maunder in mind to the end of their days. THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
- We must give the old maunderer _bos in linguam_ -- something to stop his mouth, or he will rail at us from Dan to Beersheba. The Fortunes of Nigel
- His columns frequently wander and maunder, heading this way and that, but never actually arriving anywhere. The Panda's Thumb: Jeffrey Shallit Archives