rambler
1
7.9
- noun
- /ˈræmblər/
- Informal
:
charlatán
- Sound walls, limestone and beige, line the highway, and peering over them are the emptied balconies of Arlington condos and brick ramblers, four decades old.
Examples
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Some people went so far as to suggest that Annie Howe sprinkled the pulverized bones of cats around the roots of her ramblers, or perhaps it was her own blood she cast about the shrubs.
Fiction book (2001) -
Until she was seventeen, she'd lived with her parents and her brother, Tom, in a robin's-egg-blue rambler just off Highway 54, fourteen miles south of the Canadian line.
Fiction book (2001) -
This time, the target was an aging '70s rambler in the working-class duplex lands southwest of Dallas.
Fiction book (2001) -
At the party, he became a lazy rambler, jumping from topic to topic without making any clear point.
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During the meeting, her tendency to be a rambler frustrated those who preferred concise discussions.
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His speeches often turn into a rambler that leaves the audience confused and unsure of his main message.
Synonyms
3
9.9
A person who talks very fast and is hard to understand
1
8.2
A person who talks too much in an annoying way
A person who talks quickly about unimportant things
Antonyms
How Rambling
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rambler also comes from ramble, and to ramble means 'wander'. So a rambler can be a person whose speech or writing wanders and lacks clear order.