Definizione monolingua

clatter

clatter (third-person singular simple present clatters, present participle clattering, simple past and past participle clattered)

1. (transitive) To cause to make a rattling sound.
   • 2011 21 November, Michael Cragg, “New music: Foxes - Home”, the Guardian:

     Do we really need another doe-eyed female singer-songwriter with a penchant for electro-pop? Twenty-two-year-old Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, certainly thinks so. Available as a free download via Neon Gold, her debut single Youth is a monster mix of keening vocals, slow-burn electronics and, by the songs end, big clattering drums.

   • 1883, Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Chapter V

     When he came to Nottingham, he entered that part of the market where butchers stood, and took up his inn(2) in the best place he could find. Next, he opened his stall and spread his meat upon the bench, then, taking his cleaver and steel and clattering them together, he trolled aloud in merry tones:...

2. (intransitive) To make a rattling noise
3. (intransitive) To chatter noisily or rapidly.
4. (Northern England) To hit; to smack
   • 1988, Harry Enfield, Friday Night Live

     ""I cant watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”

   • 2010, Gerald Hansen, Hand in the Till

     “An Orange bitch clattered seven shades of shite out of her,” Padraig eagerly piped up.

clatter (plural clatters)

1. A rattling noise.
2. A loud disturbance.
3. Noisy talk or chatter.

Definizione dizionario clatter

acciottolio

rabbrividire

rumore

scalpitare

Altri significati:

Noisy talk or chatter.

(intransitive) To chatter noisily or rapidly.

To cause to make a rattling sound

A rattling noise.

A rattling noise

To make a rattling noise

A loud disturbance.

(Northern England) To hit; to smack

(transitive) To cause to make a rattling sound.

A loud disturbance

(intransitive) To make a rattling noise