rambling

Verb

ramble (third-person singular simple present rambles, present participle rambling, simple past and past participle rambled)

1. To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course.
   • Weak from drifting on the longest mosey ever rambled. Weeks with no meal or beverage. Blistering desert pounding me to the crosine-tipped ^([sic]) brink of insanity. Yet perhaps there is truth in sand madness.2007 December 9, Xavier Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 6, spoken by Xavier (Vernon Chatman)
2. To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter.
3. To lead the life of a vagabond or itinerant; to move about with no fixed place of address.
   • We was drinking more in those days and tempers reached a pitch
     And like a fool I let her run with the rambling itch1994, Richard Thompson, “Beeswing”
4. (often, with-on, about) To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions.
   • Francine has a tendency to ramble when it gets to be late in the evening.

   Synonyms:

   drivel, sperg

5. To follow a winding path or course.
   • The river rambled through the mountains.

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