Clattery
adj, slang
adj, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 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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