Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Muttering or driveling speech; a muttering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
rambling orpointless discourse . - verb Present participle of
maunder .
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Examples
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And then all the life and lilt went out of them, and they were again maundering and futile things, getting in one another's way, stumbling and shuffling through the darkness, hesitating to grasp ropes, and, when they did take hold, invariably taking hold of the wrong rope first.
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Why would someone use the word maundering when they meant meandering?
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And then all the life and lilt went out of them, and they were again maundering and futile things, getting in one another's way, stumbling and shuffling through the darkness, hesitating to grasp ropes, and, when they did take hold, invariably taking hold of the wrong rope first.
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Here's the American Heritage Dictionary on "maundering": 1. To talk incoherently or aimlessly.
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If Peggy had used "maundering", I would have assumed that "meandering" had gotten mistyped.
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I don't recall ever coming across the word "maundering".
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I don't recall ever seeing the word "maundering" before, and I consider myself to be pretty well read.
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I will try if by judicious treatment the 'maundering' may not be made into something worth the hearing.
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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We'd love to comment, but I'm afraid to say that none of us here at the Sacred Order of Libertines had the stamina to read all the way through his maundering moralism.
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Staggering and maundering to himself, with bloodshot eyes, and a raw and bleeding slash down one side of his bewhiskered face, he was altogether the most nauseating specimen of degradation and filth I had ever encountered.
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