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daunder (third-person singular simple present daunders, present participle daundering, simple past and past participle daundered)
- (Scotland) To stroll; to meander.
1831, Robert Shennan, Tales, songs, and miscellaneous poems, page 80:I daunder'd about till my back turned sair, When I met wi' some neighbours, and then did repair To Farries's inn, where some whisky we got, And talked of harvest, and horses, and stots.
1890, Canadian horticulture and home magazine - Volume 13, page 150:I'll tak my staff and daunder: west, For nature age is grand to me;
1892, Robert Leighton, The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands, page 26:There's more for him to do than daunder about the hillside with a trout-wand over his shoulder.
- (Scotland, with 'on') To go on without reaching a conclusion.
1828, The London Magazine, page 449:He must do one of these two things: in the first case, his ministry may daunder on till there is another strike of half-a-dozen, like the present ; in the latter, it will be blown about his ears, from without.
1880, The Sunday at Home - Volume 27, page 406:I have always pitied people whose engagements daundered on year after year without coming to anything.
1925, The Border Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly - Volume 30, page 71:And so. beguiled by feathered pen, I daunder on.
Noun
daunder (plural daunders)
- (Scotland) A stroll.
1913, Aylmer Keith Fraser, A Garden of Spices, page 232:"Takin' a bit daunder, Laird?" said Davy with the assurance of an old servant.
2006, Duncan Glen, Collected poems, 1965-2005, →ISBN, page 87:I tak an occasional daunder roond the lawn, near every five minutes in fact, and throw lumps o sile at oor cat stalkin birds in the flooer beds.
2012, Jeff Torrington, Swing Hammer Swing!, →ISBN:Old folks out for a wee daunder might, through force of habit, find themselves wandering into this kinematic museum to watch the breakdowns and odd snippets of film.
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