Rambling vs Lambling - What's the difference?
rambling | lambling |
A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction.
* 1941 , Harold Sinclair, Years of Illusion (page 145)
A gentle hike.
A young or little lamb.
*1843 , Punch Or The London Charivari - Volume 5 - Page 83:
*1905 , William Makepeace Thackeray, The works of William Makepeace Thackeray :
*2007 , Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 115 :
As nouns the difference between rambling and lambling
is that rambling is a long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction while lambling is a young or little lamb.As a verb rambling
is present participle of lang=en.rambling
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- listening with great interest to Martha's ramblings about "The War."
Derived terms
* rambling roseAnagrams
*lambling
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have seen the lamblings skipping In sunshine and in mist; [...]
- These woolly lamblings were immensely affected by his exhortations, and when he gave out the hymn, there was such a negro chorus about the house as might be heard across the Potomac — such a chorus as would never have been heard [...]
- These two pivots of the Great Wheel, blended, had brought men, women and children in their thousands, to kill some miserable lambling . . . on the temple steps in stonement for their sins [...]