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Maunder, Maund v. i.

To beg. (Obs.)

To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. "He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Maunder" Quotes from Famous Books

... home as I went, and am a little weary, and am got into bed: I hope in God the air and exercise will do me a little good. I have been inquiring about statues for Mrs. Ashe: I made Lady Abercorn(2) go with me; and will send them word next post to Clogher. I hate to buy for her: I am sure she will maunder. I am going ...

— The Journal to Stella • Jonathan Swift

... "Don't maunder," said Chillingworth in polite criticism. "This is Amory's story, and only about a quarter of the facts yet," he added in a resentful growl. "It's up at the Boris, in West Fifty-ninth Street—you know the apartment house? A Miss Holland, an heiress, living there with her aunt, was attacked and ...

— Romance Island • Zona Gale

... it! It's of no use talking poetry to me. I don't understand that sort of thing," Captain Gray frankly said. "I'll tell you what,—it'll never do to take those transcendental ideas with you into the world. All very well to poetize and maunder about in quiet Hazlewood; but, by Jove! you'll find it won't do in practical life. Take my word for it, if you go to Canada, long before the ten years are out, Rosa Beauchamp will be wooed and won over again. 'Tisn't in nature that ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 5, No. 28, February, 1860 • Various

Words linked to "Maunder" : cast, wander, gabble, prattle, blab, prate, piffle, blather, blabber, swan, rove, tattle, mussitate, roll, chatter, verbalize, tramp, mouth, babble, verbalise, twaddle, smatter, range, talk, roam, blither