rattle

Speech parts

1. rattle - Noun

2. rattle - Verb

Meaning

To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter.

To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles.

To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour.

To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain.

To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.

Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game.

To scold; to rail at.

A rapid succession of sharp, clattering sounds; as, the rattle of a drum.

Noisy, rapid talk.

An instrument with which a rattling sound is made; especially, a child's toy that rattles when shaken.

A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.

A scolding; a sharp rebuke.

Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.

The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Phrases with the word

Derivatives

Anagrams

Examples

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. Georg Büchner

Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry. John Lennon

In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. Walter Scott

Empty dishes rattle loudly. American Proverb

Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle. Dutch Proverb

Empty barrels rattle the most. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms