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Definition rattle
Etymology 1
Verb from Middle English, either from Old English (not attested) or Middle Dutch ratelen, ultimately imitative. The noun (c. 1500) is from the verb.
Noun
rattle (plural rattles)
- (onomatopoeia) a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another.
- A baby’s toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container.
- A device that makes a rattling sound such as put on an animal so its location can be heard.
- (music) A musical instrument that makes a rattling sound.
- (dated) Noisy, rapid talk.
- (dated) A noisy, senseless talker; a jabberer.
- A scolding; a sharp rebuke.
- (zoology) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
- The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; death rattle.
- Any plant of the genus Rhinanthus, whose seeds produce a rattling noise in the wind.
Verb
rattle (third-person singular simple present rattles, present participle rattling, simple past and past participle rattled)
- (transitive, ergative) To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking.
- (transitive, informal) To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.
- (intransitive) To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
- (transitive, obsolete) To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise.
- (transitive, obsolete) To scold; to rail at.
- To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering.
- To make a clatter with one's voice; to talk rapidly and idly; often with on or away.
Etymology 2
From Arabic ????? (ra?l), variant of classical ????? (ri?l), ultimately from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra).
Noun
rattle (plural rattles)
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