rambling

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rambling

  1. present participle and gerund of ramble

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rambling

  1. Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing.
  2. Confused and irregular; awkward.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
      Except that the house had an immensely large rambling loft at top, I made no other discoveries.
  3. Winding irregularly in various directions.
    • 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 353:
      A long somewhat rambling branch, avoiding the places most likely to supply it with traffic, but not the centres of scenic interest, began at Letterkenny and reached the sea at Burtonport.

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rambling (plural ramblings)

  1. A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.
    • 1941, Harold Sinclair, Years of Illusion, page 145:
      […] listening with great interest to Martha's ramblings about "The War."
  2. A gentle hike.

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