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mander

mander is the alternative form of maunder.

Meaning of maunder

Verb

maunder (third-person singular simple present maunders, present participle maundering, simple past and past participle maundered)

  1. To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
    • He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees...
    Synonyms:
    babble, prattle, ramble
  2. To wander or walk aimlessly.
    • [Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.1959 April 24, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 35
    Synonyms:
    ramble, wander
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To beg; to whine like a beggar.

See all 5 meanings of maunder

Proper noun capitalized: Mander

Mander (countable and uncountable, plural Manders)

  1. A surname.
  2. A village in Tubbergen municipality, Overijssel province, Netherlands.

Forms of mander

Verb
third-person singular presentmanders
present participlemandering
past participlemandered
pastmandered
Proper noun
pluralManders
alternative formManter

Origin of mander

Various origins: * English occupational surname for a basket-maker, from maund + -er. * Borrowed from German Mander, a habitational surname. * Borrowed from Punjabi ਮੰਦਰ (mandar), a surname of unexplained etymology.

Words formed from mander

Questions about mander

What does mander mean?
Mander means a surname.
What is mander the alternative form of?
Mander is the alternative form of maunder.
What part of speech is mander?
Mander is a proper noun.

Words near mander in the dictionary

  1. Mandemar
  2. mandement
  3. mandement van spolie
  4. mandements
  5. Manden
  6. mander
  7. mandered
  8. manderil
  9. manderils
  10. mandering
  11. manders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mander (page history and authors); Mander (page history and authors); maunder (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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