rambling vs straggly

rambling

adj
  • Confused and irregular; awkward. 

  • Of a speech: meandering, long and digressing. 

noun
  • A gentle hike. 

  • A long meandering talk with no specific topic or direction. 

straggly

adj
  • Spread around in a chaotic and disorganized manner. 

  • Not arranged in a line. 

How often have the words rambling and straggly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )