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• ramble — [n] aimless walk constitutional, excursion, hike, perambulation, peregrination, roaming, roving, saunter, stroll, tour, traipse, trip, turn; concepts 151,224 ramble [v1] wander about; travel aimlessly amble, bat around*, be all over the map*,… …   New thesaurus

• chat — vb Chat, gab, chatter, patter, prate, prattle, babble, gabble, jabber, gibber denote to emit a loose and ready flow of inconsequential talk or as nouns the talk so emitted. To chat is to talk in light, easy, and pleasant fashion {in easy mirth we …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• bloviate — (v.) 1857, Amer.Eng., a Midwestern word for to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in high falutin , according to Farmer (1890), who seems to have been the only British lexicographer to notice it. He says it was based on BLOW (Cf. blow)… …   Etymology dictionary

• waffle — Verb. To talk aimlessly. Informal Noun. Aimless talk, nonsense. Informal …   English slang and colloquialisms

• bull — bull1 bull like, adj. /bool/, n. 1. the male of a bovine animal, esp. of the genus Bos, with sexual organs intact and capable of reproduction. 2. the male of certain other animals, as the elephant and moose. 3. a large, solidly built person. 4. a …   Universalium

• whiffle — 1. noun A short blow or gust 2. verb a) to blow a short gust b) to waffle, talk aimlessly …   Wiktionary

• ramble — v 1. wander, wander around, meander; saunter, perambulate, take a walk, go for a walk, stroll, go for a stroll, promenade, hike; amble, amble about, gad, gad about, jaunt; nomadize, peregrinate, flit, traipse; wander off, stray, deviate, detour,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• shoot or bat the breeze — sts idi shoot or bat the breeze, Slang. to talk aimlessly; chat …   From formal English to slang

• waffle — I waf•fle [[t]ˌwɒf əl[/t]] n. 1) coo a batter cake baked in a hinged appliance(waf′fle i′ron)that forms a gridlike pattern on each side 2) Also, waf′fled. having a gridlike or indented lattice shape or design • Etymology: 1735–45; < D wafel II …   From formal English to slang

• rattle — [v1] bang, jiggle bicker, bounce, clack, clatter, drum, jangle, jar, jolt, jounce, knock, shake, shatter, sound, vibrate; concepts 65,152 rattle [v2] talk aimlessly, endlessly babble, cackle, chat, chatter, clack, gab, gabble, gush, jabber, jaw,… …   New thesaurus

• List of British words not widely used in the United States — Differences between American and British English American English …   Wikipedia