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donder

donder 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

See all 3 meanings of daunder

Verb

donder (third-person singular simple present donders, present participle dondering, simple past and past participle dondered)

  1. (South Africa, slang, transitive) To beat up, to thrash.
    • Just try and I'll donder you says Jan and resets his hook. I take out my pocket knife and start to smooth it. What do you want with that stick says Jan.1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 28

Forms of donder

Verb
third-person singular presentdonders
present participledondering
past participledondered
pastdondered
Noun
pluraldonders

Origin of donder

See daunder.

Borrowed from Afrikaans donder.

Questions about donder

What does donder mean?
Donder means to beat up, to thrash.
What is donder the alternative form of?
Donder is the alternative form of daunder.
What part of speech is donder?
Donder is a verb.
What is the past tense of donder?
The past tense of donder is dondered.

Words near donder in the dictionary

  1. Donchez
  2. donchu
  3. Donda
  4. dondakaya
  5. donde esta la biblioteca
  6. donder
  7. donder and blitzen
  8. dondered
  9. dondering
  10. Dondero
  11. Donderos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: donder (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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