Meanings
nounmaundering (plural maunderings)
plural maunderings
- A rambling or pointless discourse.
"But this is madness!" protested Trocero. "The maunderings of a heretical priest, the mumblings of a mad witch-woman."
1935-36, Robert E. Howard, The Hour of the Dragon, chapter 111 more example
Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.
2009 February 18, Jim Coyle, “Spoofing of premier a bad omen”, in Toronto Star
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of maunder
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