MAUNDED

Verb

maunded

simple past tense and past participle of maund

Anagrams

• demaund

Source: Wiktionary


MAUND

Maund, n. Etym: [AS. mand, mond.]

Definition: A hand basket. [Obs.] Herrick.

Maund, n. Etym: [Hind, & Per. man.]

Definition: An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.

Maund, Maund"er, v. i. Etym: [Cf. F. mendier to beg, E. mendicant.]

1. To beg. [Obs.] B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl.

2. To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

3 April 2025

WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.

coffee icon