Clattery

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome. informal

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    a rattling sound as of hard things striking together wordnet

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From clatter + -y.

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