Maunder

Definitions: Maunder

Maunder

Verb

1. Wander aimlessly.

2. Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice.

3. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

Date "maunder" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Synonyms: Maunder

Synonyms: blab (v), blabber (v), chatter (v), clack (v), gabble (v), gibber (v), mumble (v), mussitate (v), mutter (v), palaver (v), piffle (v), prate (v), prattle (v), tattle (v), tittle-tattle (v), twaddle (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Diffuseness	Maunder, prose; harp upon; (repeat); dwell on, insist upon.
Lamentation	Complain, murmur, mutter, grumble, growl, clamor, make a fuss about, croak, grunt, maunder; deprecate; (disapprove).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Maunder

English words defined with "maunder": Haver ♦ Mander. (references)

Specialty definitions using "maunder": Maunder minimum, Maunder minimum wiggle, Maundrel. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Maunder Minimum: The Variable Sun-Earth Connection (reference) North European climate data in the latter part of the Maunder Minimum period, A.D. 1675-1715 : extended abstracts from the regional North-European sub-group meeting on historical climatology in Stavanger, Norway (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Maunder" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Maunder" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	9	117,287

Expressions using "maunder": Maunder minimum ♦ Maunder minimum wiggle. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "maunder"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Lëviz Kuturu, Flas Në Tym. (various references)

Arabic		‏هذى (piffle, rave), ‏تمون (supply), ‏ضل (astray, err, lead astray, mislead, pervert, petering, seduce, stray). (various references)

Bulgarian		�"ърдоря, �"вижа Се Безцелно, �'лача Се, Бръщолевя, Брътвя. (various references)

Czech		Mumlat (hum, mumble, murmur, mutter), Bruèet Si. (various references)

French		Errer, Divaguer, Agir De Façon Incohérente. (various references)

German		faseln (drivel, gas, ramble, twaddle, waffle). (various references)

Greek		όωρολογώ, χαζεύω (dawdle, hang about, loaf, loiter, lounge, moon), � αραληρώ. (various references)

Hebrew		ּפטפט, ּ�'מ�'ם. (various references)

Hungarian		Kószál (fool about, gad about, hang around, ramble, roam, rove, stroll, to fool about, to fool around, to go on the loose, to hang about, to hang around, to loll, to lollop, to lounge, to maunder, to ramble, to roam about, to rove, to saunter, to stroll, to trollop about), Fecseg (blab, blah blah, chat, chatter, dote, gab, jabber, jangle, natter, piffle, prate, talk, to babble, to blab, to blab out, to blat, to blatter, to cackle, to clack, to clatter, to gabble, to jabber, to jangle, to palaver, to patter, to piffle, to prattle, to quack, to rabbit, to ramble, to rant, to talk frivolities, to twaddle, to vapour, to witter, to yak, to yak it up), Csatangol (bump round, loaf, loiter, straggle, to fool about, to fool around, to go for a roam, to saunter, to saunter along, to straggle, to stroll, to trapes, wander). (various references)

Italian		Parlare A Vanvera (babble), Girovagare (meander, roam, straggle, stroll about, wander, wander about). (various references)

Pig Latin		aundermay

Portuguese		Vaguear (hock, knock around, knock at the door, lounge suit, maroon, meander, moon, ramble, range, roam, rove, straggle, stray, trail, vagabondize, wander), Tento, Falar Aereamente, Divagar (Dander, digress, divagation, ramble). (various references)

Romanian		Trãncãni (Bab, babble, cackle, clack, clash, clatter, cosher, gab, gibber, gossip, jabber, jangle, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tattle, yap), Spune Vrute şi Nevrute. (various references)

Russian		�"оворить Бессвязно, Бормотать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		tumarati (gad about, loiter, lounge, moon, prowl, roam, saunter, wander), trabunjati (froth, haver, talk through one's hat), bulazniti. (various references)

Spanish		Divagar (digress, divagate, meander, ramble). (various references)

Swedish		Släntra Omkring. (various references)

Thai		พู�"เรื่อยเจื้อย. (various references)

Turkish		Tutarsız Ve Anlaşılmaz Konuşmak, Boş Boş Dolaşmak (meander, ramble, screw around, traipse, trapse, wander about). (various references)

Ukranian		Жебрак, �"оворити Безладно, Безладна Балакнина, � ухатися Ліниво. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "maunder": maundered, maunderer, maunderers, maundering, maunders. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Maunder" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: maander, maerdref, mainder, mainier, Majumber, Mandera, matunta, Maungdaw, Mausner, Mautner, Mazumdar, meidner, Meindert, Moondork, Mounter, Muangdaw, Munde, Mundee, munder, Munderic, Muyunda, Nauder. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: duramen, manured, unarmed.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-n-r-u"
	-1 letter: damner, manure, remand, remuda, unmade, unread.
	-2 letters: admen, amend, armed, demur, denar, derma, dream, dunam, madre, maned, maund, menad, mudra, mured, named, namer, nuder, ramen, redan, reman, rumen, unarm, under.
	-3 letters: amen, arum, dame, damn, dare, darn, dean, dear, derm, dram, drum, duma, dune, dura, dure, durn, earn, made, mane, mare, maud, maun.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-n-r-u"
	+1 letter: duramens, maunders, muraenid, surnamed, underarm, undreamt, unframed, unharmed, unmarked, unmarred, unwarmed.
	+2 letters: demeanour, enamoured, guardsmen, manicured, maundered, maunderer, meandrous, muraenids, numerated, nursemaid, ruminated, unadmired, unarmored, underarms, undreamed, unmarried.
	+3 letters: androecium, demeanours, enumerated, laundrymen, maneuvered, manoeuvred, maunderers, maundering, memorandum, minaudiere, nursemaids, rudimental, submarined, transmuted, unhampered, unimpaired, unmannered, unmarrieds, unmeasured, unremarked.
	+4 letters: adjournment, admeasuring, adventurism, antheridium, candelabrum, countermand, denumerable, denumerably, documentary, draughtsmen, drumbeating, endocardium, gourmandise, gourmandize, memorandums, menstruated, minaudieres, outdreaming, quadrennium, rehumanized, remunerated, rudimentary, semidiurnal, traducement, ultramodern, unamortized, undermanned, unearmarked, unreclaimed, unscrambled, untrammeled.
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