drowndered

Updated: June 14, 2025

Aunt Greg quoted, "There's no place like home," and told a story about a boy she once heard of who ran away to sea and never came back, "foundered or drowndered," she couldn't remember which. Aunt Prue seized his shoulders and gave him a sound shake.

Various - St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11