Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From earlier maund (“to beg”).
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| maunders | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
From earlier maund (“to beg”).
What are you maundering about? He's going out from here a free man and whole—he's not going to die.1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch. XVII:
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.1871, Henry James, “ch. IV”, in A Passionate Pilgrim:
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.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:
"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 […]"1834, Maria Edgeworth, Helen: v. 3, ch. V:
He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC:
[Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 35:
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| maundered | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| maundered | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| maundering | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| maunders | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
prattle (speak in a disorganized manner) · wander (walk aimlessly) · ramble (speak in a disorganized manner) · ramble (walk aimlessly) · babble (speak in a disorganized manner)
es holgazanear (walk aimlessly) · es divagar (speak in a disorganized manner) · pl bajtlować (speak in a disorganized manner) · mi kōtetetete (speak in a disorganized manner) · pl zbajtlować (speak in a disorganized manner) · bg движа се безцелно (walk aimlessly) · bg говоря несвързано (speak in a disorganized manner) · mi hautete (speak in a disorganized manner)