rattling — ozdic

Definitions

adj

1

Lively, quick (speech, pace).

2

good, fine.

a rattling good lunch

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”

noun

1

rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)

noun

1

Alternative form of ratline.

Collocations

4

ADJ.

good, idle, quaint, rascal, thoughtless

VERB + RATTLING

back, hear, heard, house, like, make, started, wind

RATTLING + NOUN

doors, earthquake, kitchen, luck, lunch, nobody's, noise, saber

PREP.

from, in, through, up

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with

rattle
rale

adjective — quick and energetic

adverb — used as intensifiers

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

a rattling good lunch

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02

“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring g

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03

To say the truth, Sophia, when very young, discerned that Tom, though an idle, thoughtless, rattling rascal, was nobody's enemy but his own […]

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04

Everything on top of the table started rattling when the earthquake hit.

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05

Tom is rattling his saber.

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06

When you speak of the Devil, you can hear the rattling of his bones.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, rattling is marked as dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.