Monday, October 23, 2006
Maunder
Maundering is talking or acting aimlessly or in a confused way. The word sounds a bit like its meaning so some of you picked up on that with your guesses. Again, it was really hard to choose, especially because there was a record number of entries. So I chose my favourite three and added a voting poll for visitors to choose. The winner was Blue Eagle! Well done.
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To maunder is actually the opposite of ponder. Even though the word maunder sounds slow and lethargic, a maunderous person is a go-getter, a do it before anyone else does kind of person. Quite the opposite of sequacious, in fact.
My son James aged 8 says it's when you flick through your mind thinking of thoughts! If this is true he is definitely a wonderful maunderous person.
It is a sort of sticky cake containing rosewater, asafoetida and dried mulberries eaten in certain parts of Hertfordshire, England, on Maundy Tuesday.
A maunder is a small, blue fish that lives off the coast of Alaska. It is rarely seen and is considered a delicacy by Eskimos.
it's when u are caught unawares in a place, when u r hurrying to get somewhere, by one of those people who can grate on ur nerves and never have a clue about the havoc they r wrecking. but all u can do is smile and put up with it, and make all kinds of excuses to get away which only fall on deaf ears.
Its like "she maundered me in the subway"...or something
It's when a large group of people gathers at the scene of a crime or disaster or celebrity sighting. "I would've been home sooner, but there was a maunder in front of the bank."
Maunder is a combination of meandering a pondering. It's when you are walking on the beach, or down a street, or in a mall somewhere thinking about many differnt things. Suddenly you are jolted out of your reverie to realize that you have wandered far off the beaten path and aren't quite sure how you got there. Maunderers often find that they can't remember vast stretches of road when driving.
Maundering is the loud, complaining version of chuntering. Chuntering being softly talking to yourself.
The important thing here is that no-one is listening or cares that you are complaining, so really its just moaning loudly without an audience.
I bet we all know a maunderer.
A maunder is a person who goes to a funeral and pretends to be sad, but really they're not.
I've just linked you as well. Thanks for posting on my blog! My sister and I used to play just this sort of word game when we were little, and now my boyfriend and I do too.
The similarity between animals and humans is referred to as maunder. For example "My dad's big ears maunder the ears of a rabbit."
Maunder describes how i feel when faced with folding washing (laundry).
A Maunder is an old English term for someone who distributes charity on behalf of the Church. The role still exists in the Church of England but is now largely ceremonial as during Victorian times the role of looking after the poor shifted increasingly to the State.
maundering is when your're supposed to be doing something (like working or studying) but you're constantly allowing yourself to be distracted by other things -- like me right now, being distracted by the string of blogs leading from someone you know to whole new worlds!
Maunder is what happens to you the morning after a big night out. You wake up in the morning feeling all sprightly and not too bad (usually because you are still slightly drunk), but as the day wears on you slowly, but surely, start to feel worse and worse....that is Maunder.
Maunder is a person who is in a maundidh mood, sad, kind of dark, but putting up a happy front. "See that maunderer, the one who's wearing that maundish experession? Can you tell he doesn't want to be here?"
It is an old fashioned slang term for when Ma and Da were having intercourse and the children were not allowed into the cabin. e.g. "can't go inside as Maunder"
personally, i like Blue Eagles' the best. but here goes mine.
Maunder - N. a person who eagerly anticipates the Thursday before Easter, for reasons no one quite understands. this person is also quite un-fun at parties.
... thanks for linking me to your blog! (i've reciprocated with mine.) i've enjoyed it a lot. this is SUCH a great idea. it rocks!
To maunder is to be the first person to walk across a field of fresh clean snow.
Maunder is the noise your angry mother makes when calling you by your full given names. Like thunder only more fierce and longer. (I love this blog, thanks to Clare at TBT for referring us!)
I would imagine to maunder would be to go to and fro with a funny looking hat on, clicking your tongue as you try to prepare for this or that and do so hurriedly when you actually have all the time in the world but act as if you only have 5 minutes- but the hat - it's important
THanks a million for voting my entry guys. this is goin to be one of my 3BT for today!!!
This is a brilliant blog Word Imp, keep up the good work.
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