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comparative more rattling, superlative most rattling
Lively, quick (speech, pace). examples
(dated, intensifier) good, fine. quotations examples
“ […] 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. […] ”
1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
To say the truth, Sophia, when very young, discerned that Tom, though an idle, thoughtless, rattling rascal, was nobody's enemy but his own […]
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.
1914 June, James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards
present participle and gerund of rattle examples
plural rattlings
rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another) examples
(nautical) Alternative form of ratline examples