Green’s Dictionary of Slang

maundering broth n.

a scolding.

1639		J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 85: I dare warrant you [...] I shall have a dish of maundering Broath, thickened with a few small Reasons [and] I shall be constrained to sup it up scoulding hot.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Maundering-broth Scolding.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
c.1750–1882		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
a.1790		H.T. Potter New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: maundering broach scolding.
1809		G. Andrewes Dict. Sl. and Cant [as cit. a.1790].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		Flash Dict. [as cit. a.1790].
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict. n.p.: Maundering-belch scolding.