Verb

1. To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
   • Don’t bring up politics around him; it will only cause him to maunder incessantly.
2. To wander or walk aimlessly.

Quotations

• 1871 — Henry James, A Passionate Pilgrim, ch IV

  On the following day my friend's exhaustion had become so great that I began to fear his intelligence altogether broken up. But toward evening he briefly rallied, to maunder about many things, confounding in a sinister jumble the memories of the past weeks and those of bygone years.

• 1889 — Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, ch XVII

  "What are you maundering about? He's going out from here a free man and whole—he's not going to die."