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clattery

adj

Etymology

From clatter + -y.

  1. inherited from *clatrian✻
  2. inherited from clatren — “to make a rattling sound”
  3. suffixed as clattery — “clatter + y”

Definitions

  1. Tending to cause a clatter

    Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.

    • There was a small piano in this room, a clattery, wheezy, asthmatic thing, certainly the very worst miscarriage in the way of a piano that the world has seen.
    • She was so gay and responsive that one did not mind her heavy, running step, or her clattery way with pans.
    • All his words were poor clattery English like a stutterrer at the front of the class.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA