rattling

Plural: rattlings

Noun

• A variant spelling of 'ratline,' a rope ladder on a ship.
• a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
• rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
• Alternative form of ratline.

Verb

• make short successive sounds
• shake and cause to make a rattling noise
• present participle and gerund of rattle

Adjective Satellite

• extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers
  • "had a rattling conversation about politics"
• quick and energetic
  • "traveling at a rattling rate"

Adverb

• used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
  • "a rattling good yarn"

Adj

• Lively, quick (speech, pace).
• good, fine.

Examples

• a rattling good lunch
• Finding RATTLING was a lucky draw, allowing him to dump some tricky letters.

Synonyms

alert, brisk, fantastic, grand, howling, lively, marvellous, marvelous, merry, rale, rattle, real, really, snappy, spanking, terrific, tremendous, very, wonderful, wondrous, zippy

Anagrams of rattling