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Today's Word "maunder"

To wander confusedly on

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maunder \MON-duhr\ (intransitive verb) - 1 : To talk incoherently; to speak in a rambling manner. 2 : To wander aimlessly or confusedly.

"But if it be given to a man 'to maunder away his mind in softness,' he cannot live otherwise than as nature has made him. Such a man must maunder." -- Anthony Trollope, 'An Old Man's Love'

 

Maunder is perhaps a dialectal variant of meander (possibly influenced by wander).


 

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