This week – Word of the Week (#4):
This week sees another offering from Samuel Johnson (It’s the only book I brought back to Bristol with me, so we’ll probably hear a lot from him). I really like this word and I hope that it’s one that you guys will have a go with during the next week.
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v. To ramble about without any settled purpose; to rave loosely and idly.
2 comments:
Now this relate to ramble and rave as in speech or to ramble and rave in music?
I do a lot in both senses anyway...
At a guess I'd say that in Dr Johnson's time there was less rave music about, so I think he means speech, but I don't see any reason why we can't update it to mean music too.
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