Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beggar.
- noun A grumbler; a driveler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who maunders.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
babbler , amumbler , one whospeaks incessantly.
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Examples
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It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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It was everything that England wasn't: no censorious social critics, none of that upper-class British inhibition, a concept of time that made this habitual maunderer seem punctual and, best of all, a climate that allowed one to grow plants and animals in lush profusion.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico 2000
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Otherwise this irritable maunderer would have known that, everything else apart, I am heartily tired of the responsibilities of youth under any such constant surveillance.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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They don't say, like that poor old maunderer I read this morning, that there's no use preparing -- that a million phagocytes will spring to arms overnight if their country's invaded.
The Wrong Twin Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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Mungo’s irreverence in chuckling over his own wit, and only farther alluded to it by saying — “We must give the old maunderer bos in linguam — something to stop his mouth, or he will rail at us from Dan to Beersheba. —
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"We must give the old maunderer _bos in linguam_ -- something to stop his mouth, or he will rail at us from Dan to Beersheba.
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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