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English
Etymology
From earlier maund (“to beg”).
Pronunciation
Verb
maunder (third-person singular simple present maunders, present participle maundering, simple past and past participle maundered)
- To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
1834, Maria Edgeworth, Helen: v. 3, ch. V:"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 […] "
1871, Henry James, “ch. IV”, in A Passionate Pilgrim: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.
2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times: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.
1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 35:[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To beg; to whine like a beggar.
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Translations
speak in a disorganized manner
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Noun
maunder (plural maunders)
- (obsolete) A beggar.
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