Verb (used without object) : He maundered through life without a single ambition. From Dictionary.com.
'maunder' on with objections long since disposed of. From Wordnik.com. [Note Book of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
I looked up "maunder" and I think it would make an excellent stage name: -) 9: 28 PM skookumchick said. From Wordnik.com. [Added to the Blogroll] Reference
All very well to poetize and maunder about in quiet. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Let women moan and maunder against the glorious time. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
James: Just thanks, for letting me maunder on like this. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Get on board or maunder out to the retirement home, Fred!. From Wordnik.com. [25 Random Tips for the Busy Facebook User - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
That is what his life has turned, but he will not maunder about it. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
“A nasty night, mind you,” he would maunder on, taking another turn. From Wordnik.com. [No Name] Reference
Can you give me a maximum number of unobserved sunspots in the maunder minimum?. From Wordnik.com. [Trenberth [1984] « Climate Audit] Reference
"How I do maunder on," Nieda said, patting the rolled hair at the back of her neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Reborn]
And while you maunder about restoring competition, the trusts go on destroying you. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8: The Machine Breakers] Reference
See what happens when you get drunk and maunder at strangers in bus station lobbies?. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Beetle] Reference
Some say a new maunder minimum is imminent, others extrapolate the current increase. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming Katrina Anniversary « Climate Audit] Reference
An interesting bit of information can be found at wikipedia search for maunder minimum. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Drudge Falsely Smears Gore] Reference
Meander is a much more common word than maunder is, why would anyone expect her to say maunder?. From Wordnik.com. ["It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough."] Reference
I remember Ppt used to maunder, when I came from a great dinner, and DD had but a bit of mutton. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
The sunspot number in the maunder minimum was zero, there are sufficient overlapping observations. From Wordnik.com. [Trenberth [1984] « Climate Audit] Reference
His columns frequently wander and maunder, heading this way and that, but never actually arriving anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Panda's Thumb: Jeffrey Shallit Archives] Reference
The FACT that the last time the opposite happened with the sun we had a “little ice age” (maunder minimum) means nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore] Reference
Strachan began to maunder about the lady's eyes, and to tear his hair, and to call himself the most miserable dog in existence. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
I think someone as insufferably snobbish and pretentious as her might be expected to use maunder instead of the much more common meander. From Wordnik.com. ["It was a strategic mistake to send Sarah Palin out on the stump as warrior girl. Mr. McCain is war-y enough."] Reference
I just watched something Mr. Wonderful recorded from The History Channel, and daaaayum, if W ain't resemblin' Adolf!...but I maunder more. From Wordnik.com. [anger management] Reference
I hate to buy for her: I am sure she will maunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal to Stella] Reference
Nevertheless, maunder he must; and he recurred to it in. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
"Don't maunder," said Chillingworth in polite criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Island] Reference
All of which it is a comfort somehow to maunder away on here. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors] Reference
The first thing you discover, as you maunder through the hall. From Wordnik.com. [Songs and Other Verse] Reference
"You're just doing your part in letting me maunder to you thus.". From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
Estimating the sun's radiative output during the maunder minimum. From Wordnik.com. [New Content on CO2 Science] Reference
Look up the maunder minimum for a little more detail on that subject. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
It's young for him still -- Hold on, Olive; I'm not going to maunder!. From Wordnik.com. [The Brentons] Reference
Apian continued to maunder over the Ptolemaic theory and astrology in his lecture-room. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
Its hard to believe Senator 'BCCI' Hatch is still around to maunder on about "socialism.". From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
And while they maunder along they stifle the forces of life which are trying to break through. From Wordnik.com. [A Preface to Politics] Reference
I hate to hear him maunder on about imagination, while he leaves his tenantry to take their chance. From Wordnik.com. [Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife] Reference
And he was so much more her child than his mother's, that Dame Annora durst do no more than maunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference
"I won't maunder -- I'm ever so jolly -- if only you'll stay!" she cried, and she smiled through her tears. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02] Reference
On losing his Tullia, some father of to-day would keep it all in his heart, would not maunder out his sorrows. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Cicero Volume One] Reference
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