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   ramble

   /ˈrambl/

   verb

   • 1. walk for pleasure in the countryside: "I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing" Similar walktake a walkgo for a walkhiketrampbackpacktrekwanderstrollsaunterambledriftroamrangerovetraipsejauntstravaiginformal:moseytootlepootlerare:vagabondperambulateperegrinate
   • 2. talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way: "Willy rambled on about Norman archways" Similar chatterbabbleprattleprateblatherblethergabblejabbertwittergo onrun onrattle on/awayblithermaunderdrivelinformal:jawgasgabyakyackety-yakyabberyattershoot one's mouth offwitterrabbitchunternatterwafflerun off at the mouthmagarchaic:twaddleclacktwattle
   • 3. (of a plant) put out long shoots and grow over walls or other plants: "roses climbed, rambled, hung over walls"

   noun

   • 1. a walk taken for pleasure in the countryside.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in ramble (sense 2 of the verb)): probably related to Middle Dutch rammelen, used of animals in the sense ‘wander about on heat’, also to the noun ram.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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