OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 29244

maunder

/ˈmɔːndə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
divagar
To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
"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…
He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
holgazanear
To wander or walk aimlessly.
[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.
Phrases