quander

English

Verb

quander (third-person singular simple present quanders, present participle quandering, simple past and past participle quandered)

1. To ponder or wonder about.
   • 1906, The Reader - Volume 7, page 230:

     While thus I quandered in despair, imagine, please, me shocks — A gang o' naked savages came troopin' down the rocks ;.

   • 1933, “A Coin”, in The Numismatist, volume 46, page 799:

     There's a difference in the die-breaks, Or change made in the die, That leads the numismatic mind To quander and to pry.

   • 2007, Henry Louis Gates (Jr.), Gene Andrew Jarrett, The New Negro, →ISBN:

     The picture continued to press upon young Alford's mind, and with the peculiar vigor of youth, he had stopped to quander over the outward aspect of the situation.

   • 2008, William Schumann, The Big Spud: USS Idaho in WWII, →ISBN, page 321:

     Unusual short hop, should have been at least four hours or more, but I didn't have time to quander over it, because Lt. Hanse and I get the call to take her back up.

   • 2013, Michael O'Shea, Blood on the Risers, →ISBN, page 161:

     What the hell did I get myself into? he quandered, peering down at the long, slender legs as they drew up closer to his thigh . . . the dark, kneehigh skirt climbing slowly above the gartered silk stockings.