maunder

maunder

mawn dər

intransitive verb
1. to speak in an aimless or foolish way; babble.
example: The police failed to get answers from the witness, who maundered on about her own troubles.
example: “Nam-Bok was ever clumsy at the paddle,” she maundered reminiscently, shading the sun from her eyes and staring across the silver-spilled water.

2. to act or wander without purpose or direction.
example: I had maundered out to the Campo Santo that last day, and on the road back, just after passing through the walls, an Englishman who had lost himself, asked the way to the market-place.