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maunder
UK /ˈmɔːndə/ US /ˈmɔndɚ/
verb 3noun 1name 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
many, rallied
MAUNDER + NOUN
things
PREP.
about
ADV.
briefly
Definitions
verb
1
To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
"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 […]"
2
To wander or walk aimlessly.
[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.
3
To beg; to whine like a beggar.
noun
1
A beggar.
name
1
A surname.
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He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
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"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 c
Wiktionary03
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, confoun
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