rattly

[ rat-lee ]

adjective
  1. tending to rattle; making or having a rattling sound.

Origin of rattly

1
First recorded in 1880–85; rattle1 + -y1

Words Nearby rattly

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How to use rattly in a sentence

  • In May, he packed all his things into his rattly Subaru Outback and moved in with me in Golden.

  • "rattly Robot," a dull-witted mechanical clod who was continually falling over himself and getting into trouble.

    The Velvet Glove | Harry Harrison
  • The rather feeble lights of the rattly old car did little to illumine the well of darkness in which they were riding.

  • I didnt know much about it but we could ride about at night in his rattly old car, and every now and then hed stop and say: See!

  • It was Mose crashing headlong into the old messbox where he kept rattly basins, empty lard pails, and such, that roused Ford.

    The Uphill Climb | B. M. Bower
  • It was just like a lock was bein' picked, or a rattly old window bein' slid up by inches.

    Old Caravan Days | Mary Hartwell Catherwood

British Dictionary definitions for rattly

rattly

/ (ˈrætlɪ) /


adjective-tlier or -tliest
  1. having a rattle; rattling

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