Word Direct Answers

What does "clatter" mean?

Clatter: To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue. I see thou dost but clatter. Spenser.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To make a rattling noise with. You clatter still your brazen kettle. Swift.
  2. 3.A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds. The goose let fall a golden egg With cackle and with clatter. Tennyson.
  3. 4.Commotion; disturbance. "Those mighty feats which made such a clatter in story." Barrow.
  4. 5.Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. "Hold still thy clatter." Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ). Throw by your clatter And handle the matter. B. Jonson

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