maunder
/ˈmɔːndə
/verb [no object]
1Talk in a rambling manner: Dennis maundered on about the wine...
- A longer perspective is more pertinent and more relevant to the future than listening to televised imbeciles maundering about the ‘death of liberalism.’
- And if I've devoted too much time to maundering about this, it's from a sort of frustration.
- I've maundered and pondered and arm-waved about something like this for ages.
Synonyms
ramble, prattle, prate, blather, blether, blither, drivel, rattle, chatter, jabber, gabble, babble;
Scottish & Irish slabber
informal gab, yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter
British informal rabbit, witter, waffle, natter, chunter
archaic twaddle, clack
1.1 [with adverbial] Move or act in a dreamy or idle manner: he maunders through the bank, composing his thoughts...
- This real England, your unreal home, turns us all into maundering John of Gaunts, sighing over sceptred isles, demi-paradises, other Edens.
- But what good is bawdy when its purveyors, from low to high, seem unfailingly recruited for their unsightliness, and act like overwrought underachievers or maundering bystanders?
- You lot thought I was maundering in Philadelphia, didn't you?
Synonyms
wander, drift, meander, amble, dawdle, potter, straggle
British informal mooch
Origin
Early 17th century: perhaps from obsolete maunder 'to beg'.