quander

present singular third person quanders · participle present quandering · participle past quandered · past quandered

1. To ponder or wonder about.

   There's a difference in the die-breaks, Or change made in the die, That leads the numismatic mind To quander and to pry.

   1933, “A Coin”, in The Numismatist, volume 46, page 799

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   While thus I quandered in despair, imagine, please, me shocks — A gang o' naked savages came troopin' down the rocks ;.

   1906, The Reader - Volume 7, page 230

   The picture continued to press upon young Alford's mind, and with the peculiar vigor of youth, he had stopped to quander over the outward aspect of the situation.

   2007, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro, →ISBN

   Unusual short hop, should have been at least four hours or more, but I didn't have time to quander over it, because Lt. Hanse and I get the call to take her back up.

   2008, William Schumann, The Big Spud: USS Idaho in WWII, →ISBN, page 321

   What the hell did I get myself into? he quandered, peering down at the long, slender legs as they drew up closer to his thigh . . . the dark, kneehigh skirt climbing slowly above the gartered silk stockings.

   2013, Michael O'Shea, Blood on the Risers, →ISBN, page 161