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Word Meanings - GADDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who roves about idly, a rambling gossip.

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  • ABOUT
    On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
  • RAMBLINGLY
    In a rambling manner.
  • GOSSIPRY
    1. Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale. 2. Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.
  • RAMBLE
    Etym: 1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect
  • GOSSIPY
    Full of, or given to, gossip.
  • RAMBLING
    Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
  • GOSSIPER
    One given to gossip. Beaconsfield.
  • GOSSIPREDE
    The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
  • RAMBLER
    One who rambles; a rover; a wanderer.
  • GOSSIP
    baptism, a relation by a religious obligation, AS. godsibb, fr. god + sib alliance, relation; akin to G. sippe, Goth. sibja, and also to 1. A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place
  • ABOUT-SLEDGE
    The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
  • SCRAMBLING
    Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • BRAMBLING
    The European mountain finch ; -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
  • SCRAMBLED EGGS
    Eggs of which the whites and yolks are stirred together while cooking, or eggs beaten slightly, often with a little milk, and stirred while cooking.
  • BRAMBLY
    Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.
  • RACEABOUT
    A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
  • SCRAMBLE
    1. To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks. 2. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what
  • STIRABOUT
    A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
  • BRAMBLE
    Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak.
  • MARABOUT
    A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
  • BRAMBLE BUSH
    The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.
  • HAULABOUT
    A bargelike vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.
  • WHEREABOUT; WHEREABOUTS
    1. About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him Note: In this sense, whereabouts is the common form. 2. Concerning which; about which. "The object whereabout they are conversant."
  • BRAMBLE NET
    A net to catch birds.

 

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