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dauner

dauner is the alternative form of daunder.

Meaning of daunder

Verb

daunder (third-person singular simple present daunders, present participle daundering, simple past and past participle daundered)

  1. (Scotland) To stroll; to meander.
    • I daunder'd about till my back turned sair, When I met wi' some neighbours, and then did repair To Farries's inn, where some whisky we got, And talked of harvest, and horses, and stots.1831, Robert Shennan, Tales, songs, and miscellaneous poems, page 80
  2. (Scotland) To go on without reaching a conclusion.
    • He must do one of these two things: in the first case, his ministry may daunder on till there is another strike of half-a-dozen, like the present ; in the latter, it will be blown about his ears, from without.1828, The London Magazine, page 449

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Forms of dauner

Verb
third-person singular presentdauners
present participledaunering
past participledaunered
pastdaunered
Noun
pluraldauners

Questions about dauner

What is dauner the alternative form of?
Dauner is the alternative form of daunder.

Words near dauner in the dictionary

  1. dauncy
  2. daunder
  3. daundered
  4. daundering
  5. daunders
  6. dauner
  7. daunered
  8. daunering
  9. dauners
  10. Daungan
  11. daungerous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dauner (page history and authors); daunder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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