RAMBLE, RAMBLING (talking)
ADJECTIVES
► DANDERING foolish, weak-minded, twaddling; incoherent, rambling in speech → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOWY-MOUTHED characterizing speech that is rambling, mumbling, evasive → 1936 Amer. dial.
► RAVELLED confused in mind, muddled; rambling, incoherent, delirious → 1866 Sc.
► SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE confused, incoherent, rambling, nonsensical → 1596
ADVERBS
► SKIMBLE-SKAMBLE in a confused or rambling manner; incoherently → 1775
NOUNS
► BELL-WAVERING fluttering; rambling → 1820 Sc.
► PARINODY a rambling statement; a long uninteresting tale → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► REEMLE-RAMMLE a great noise; noisy, rollicking conduct; a noisy, rambling speech or tale → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
VERBS
► BUMBLE to speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct way, especially at tedious length → 1911
► DANDER to talk incoherently, to ramble → 1847 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► DROOL to talk foolishly, to ramble on → L19
► EXTRAVAGE to deviate in discourse from the proper subject; to digress; to talk incoherently; to ramble → c1690 obs. exc. Sc.
► GANDER to ramble in talk, to waffle → 1858
► MADDLE to ramble, to talk incoherently, to wander in speech → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MOITHER to talk incoherently or foolishly; to be delirious, to wander or ramble in one’s mind → 1874 Eng. dial.
► RANDER to ramble in discourse; to talk idly → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► RANNEL to talk in a rambling, gossiping way → 1896 Eng. dial.
► RAVEL to speak in a wandering, incoherent manner; to ramble, to maunder, to be delirious → 1877 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► WAFFLE to talk ramblingly → 1900 sl.
► WHITTER ► WITTER to talk ramblingly → 1808 sl., orig. Sc.
► WOFFLE to talk ramblingly → 1900 sl.
► YATTER to chatter, to ramble on in a confused or foolish manner; to prattle, to talk interminably → 1825 Sc.
► YATTER-YATTER to chatter, to ramble on in a confused or foolish manner; to prattle, to talk interminably → 1825 Sc.