(v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.
(v. t.) To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.
(n.) A beggar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps he came with the intention of whipping up a controversy that his movie (a gorgeous, though maundering meditation on the end of the world) has singularly failed to provide.
(2) The film-maker maunders about inchoately in the documentary, showing a "different" slice of life, and at one stage trots out the extraordinary defence that if he hadn't done it, someone else would have.
(3) (1967) on 41 samples of fish, One Step Method, (Ahmad and Marolt (1986] on 86 samples of fish and Maunder et al.
(4) This scene is replayed across Britain each day: from the centre of Derby to the cluster of chicken factories owned by other companies in the Midlands, from Great Yarmouth to the Grampian production lines in East Anglia, from Exeter to the Lloyd Maunder factory in Devon where 18 nationalities work cutting and packing chicken for Sainsbury's.
Prate
Definition:
(v. i.) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
(v. t.) To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
(n.) Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.