maundering

noun

1. A rambling or pointless discourse.

   “"But this is madness!" protested Trocero. "The maunderings of a heretical priest, the mumblings of a mad witch-woman."”

   “Alas, it looked yesterday, when the Legislature returned to business, as if Premier Dalton McGuinty's peculiar maunderings and ponderings of the past several weeks risk making him just that.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of maunder