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Definition: Rattle |
RattleNoun1. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle". 2. A baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken. 3. Loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail. Verb1. Make short successive sounds. 2. Shake and cause to make a rattling noise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rattle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Note: Rattle \Rat"tle\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Rattled; Rattling.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a baby play with its rattle, omens peaceful contentment in the home, and enterprises will be honorable and full of gain. To a young woman, it augurs an early marriage and tender cares of her own. To give a baby a rattle, denotes unfortunate investments. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Fine Arts | If even a small amount of foreign particles find their way between the reed tongue and the brass tube it beats againts, the tone immediately becomes bad, and usually causes a -- or a selent note. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | The property of a paper of emitting a sound when a sheet is shaken. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | RATTLE. A dice-box. To rattle; to talk without consideration, also to move off or go away. To rattle one off; to rate or scold him. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: RattleSynonyms: rale (n), rattling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Amused; Verb: "pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw"; laughing; Verb:; risible; ready to burst, ready to split, ready to die with laughter; convulsed with laughter, rolling in the aisles. |
Death | Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore. |
Imbecility Folly | Weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained; rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated; dim-sighted, short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story. |
Loquacity | Verb: be loquacious; Adjective: talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate; (speak at length); gossip; (converse); din in the ears; (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense; be hoarse with talking. |
Talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler; Verb: rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser, driveler; blatherskite; gossip; (converse); magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles. | |
Jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble; small talk; (converse). | |
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Crosswords: Rattle |
| English words defined with "rattle": American rattlebox ♦ Berattle, Botrychium virginianum ♦ Cresselle, crotalaria, Crotalaria sagitallis, Crotalaria spectabilis ♦ Indian rattlebox ♦ Quaking grass ♦ rattlebox, rattler, rattlesnake, rattlesnake fern, Rattlesnake grass, Ruttle ♦ Scrophulariaceous, Sistrum ♦ To rattle off, To spring a rattle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rattle": Beans ♦ CANDLESTICKS, Carmelite, Cressell'e. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "rattle": loquacious. (references) |
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Screenplays | I've toyed with the idea of a ball and chain, but he'd probably just rattle them at me, and in public, too. (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen) Rattle some chains or something (Ghost; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin) Yes we do. We found your Richard Nixon rattle on the floor next to the evidence (Family Ties; writing credit: Marissa Garrido; Raimundo Lopes) Richie loved to use 22s because the bullets are small and they don't come out the other end like a 45, see, a 45 will blow a barn door out the back of your head and there's a lot of dry cleaning involved, but a 22 will just rattle around like Pac-Man until you're dead (My Blue Heaven; writing credit: Nora Ephron) I don't rattle, kid. Just for that I'll beat you flat (The Hustler; writing credit: Sidney Carroll; Robert Rossen) | |
Lyrics | And rattle those pots and pans ("Shake Rattle and Roll"; performing artist: Joe Turner) I said Shake rattle and roll; ("Shake Rattle and Roll"; performing artist: Joe Turner) It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls ("The Times They Are A-Changin'"; performing artist: Bob Dylan) You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain ("Great Balls of Fire"; performing artist: Jerry Lee Lewis) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rattle of a Simple Man (1964) U2: Rattle and Hum (1988) | |
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 | Young Rattle Snake on WapiCraters of the MoonShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Duane Reynolds. |  | Rattle Snake, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
 | Lakeview District. Rattle Snake. Credit: Terry Spivey. |  | Close shot of Rattle Snake, Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
 | Crow Indian, kneeling, wearing prayer shawl and holding a feather fan and staff, sings as he shakes a traditional peyote rattle during ceremony; two other young men sit or kneel on either side of him, Crow Indian Reservation, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Is this a rattle which I see before me / Cruikshank. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The American rattle snake. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | May the 70's rot in peace! : in the 80's the empire's gonna shake, rattle, 'n' roll! : New Years Eve, 1980!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Rattle Snake Head" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Rattle Snake Head." |
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 | Rattle; ice; frozen; cold; jiggle; jangle; shake; shaking; jangling; jiggling; frigid; chilly; chilled. | | Rattling; shaking; shake; rattle; dice; backgammon; board game. |
| Jingle; percussion; instrument; chime; chink; chinkle; clamor; clang; clatter; clink; ding; jangle; rattle; reverberate; ring; sound; tingle; tinkle; tintannabulate; drumhead. | ||
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Alexander Pope | Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. |
Boyes | Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. |
Samuel Johnson | Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tappets can rattle till Jesus comes again without no harm |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | For the rest of the long afternoon, perhaps, my meditations are interrupted only by the faint rattle of a carriage or team along the distant highway |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | CARMELITE, n. A mendicant friar of the order of Mount Carmel. As Death was a-rising out one day, Across Mount Camel he took his way, Where he met a mendicant monk, Some three or four quarters drunk, With a holy leer and a pious grin, Ragged and fat and as saucy as sin, Who held out his hands and cried: "Give, give in Charity's name, I pray. Give in the name of the Church. O give, Give that her holy sons may live!" And Death replied, Smiling long and wide: "I'll give, holy father, I'll give thee -- a ride." With a rattle and bang Of his bones, he sprang From his famous Pale Horse, with his spear; By the neck and the foot Seized the fellow, and put Him astride with his face to the rear. The Monarch laughed loud with a sound that fell Like clods on the coffin's sounding shell: "Ho, ho! A beggar on horseback, they say, Will ride to the devil!" -- and thump Fell the flat of his dart on the rump Of the charger, which galloped away. Faster and faster and faster it flew, Till the rocks and the flocks and the trees that grew By the road were dim and blended and blue To the wild, wild eyes Of the rider -- in size Resembling a couple of blackberry pies. Death laughed again, as a tomb might laugh At a burial service spoiled, And the mourners' intentions foiled By the body erecting Its head and objecting To further proceedings in its behalf. Many a year and many a day Have passed since these events away. The monk has long been a dusty corse, And Death has never recovered his horse. For the friar got hold of its tail, And steered it within the pale Of the monastery gray, Where the beast was stabled and fed With barley and oil and bread Till fatter it grew than the fattest friar, And so in due course was appointed Prior. G.J. |
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| "Rattle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.77% of the time. "Rattle" is used about 311 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60.77% | 189 | 22,353 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 20.9% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10.61% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.4% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (common) | 0.32% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 311 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "rattle": death rattle ♦ give a death rattle ♦ give the death rattle ♦ rattle along ♦ rattle at the door ♦ rattle away ♦ rattle down ♦ rattle off ♦ rattle on ♦ rattle snake ♦ rattle the saber ♦ rattle the sabre ♦ rattle through ♦ rattle trough ♦ rattle up ♦ rattle weed ♦ To rattle off ♦ To spring a rattle ♦ Watchman's rattle ♦ water rattle ♦ yellow rattle. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "rattle": rattle-bag, rattle-box, rattle-brain, Rattle-brained, rattle-brained youngster, rattle-free, rattle-head, Rattle-headed, rattle-pate, Rattle-pated, rattle-snake, rattle-trap. | |
Ending with "rattle": death-rattle, drum-and-rattle, drum-rattle, sabre-rattle, yellow-rattle. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "rattle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | klik (clap, click). (various references) | |
Albanian | rrapëllimë (clatter, hullabaloo, noise), rraketake (rattle-box), rrapëllin (jar), ushtimë (echo, noise, reverberation, skirl), trondit (appal, appall, concuss, overwhelm, shake, shake up, shock, stagger, stir, touch), trokitje (knock, patter, percussion, rataplan), trokas fort, ushton, uturin (backfire, whir), uturimë (noise, whir, whirr), flas shpejtë, ndjek (attend, chase, follow, give chase, Hunt, lead, nose, persecute, prosecute, pursue, shadow, smell out, spoor, string along, tag, tail, take after, touch, trace, track, track down, trail, tread), lëviz me zhurmë, krismë (bang, clash, crack, crash, scratch, smash, snap), kris (crack, crash), kërcitje (clack, clash, click, clicking, crack, crackle, crackling, crash, creak, crepitation, crunch, Gride, grinding, groan, pop, pound, rap, scratch, screech, snap, splutter, squeak), gaz (cheer, cheerfulness, exhilaration, fluid, fume, gaiety, gas, glee, jamboree, jocularity, jocundity, jollity, joviality, joy, liveliness, merriment, merriness, mirth, rollick, sunshine, tittup, waggery), pëlcitje (blowup, burst). (various references) | |
Arabic | صلصل (clank, clatter, clink, jangle), رج (bump, concuss, shake), ثرثرة (babble, blab, blabber, boastfulness, breeze, cackle, chat, chatter, clatter, gab, gabble, garrulity, gas, gibberish, jabber, jactitation, logorrhea, loquacity, patter, prate, prattle, talkativeness, tattler, tittle tattle, twaddle, yap), أثار الأعصاب, أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex), أيقظ (arouse, awake, awaken, awoken, call, raise, rouse, rout, wake, wake up, waken), جلجلية, خشخش (clank, clink, rustle), خشخشة (clank, clatter, clink, crinkle, jingle, rumbling, rustle, rustling, tinkle), خشخيشة, شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle), صخب (bustling, clamor, clamour, clatter, crash, furor, hubbub, hue and cry, hustle, mayhem, pandemonium, roar, roister, rowdiness, rush, squash, stink, uproar, vociferate), فقد أعصابه (chicken), صليل (clank, clash), ضايق (aggrieve, annoy, bully, distress, disturb, dog, fret, get in the way, gnaw, grate, grill, harass, harrow, harry, incommode, inconvenience, irk, jar, jolt, molest, nag, persecute, pester, pick, rag, saddle, torment), عقعق, زعزع (rock, shake, stampede, unsettle), سقط بسرعة, حشرجة الموت, قعقع (clang, clank, clash, clatter, clink, rumble), قعقعة (clang, clank, clash, clatter, rumble), هز (agitate, bob, concuss, convulse, jolt, ring, rock, shake, shock, stir, swing, twitter, vibrate, wag, waggle), خشخيشة الأطفال. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | потраквам (patter), детска дрънкалка, веселба (carousal, gaiety, jollification, jolly, merriment, racket, randan, rejoicings, revelry, rollick, shine), озадачавам (bepuzzle, bewilder, floor, flummox, hobble, intrigue, maze, mystify, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stick up for, stumble, stump, vex), бърборя (babble, cank, gab, jabber, natter, prate, prattle, tattle), бърборене (chatter, gab, prate, prattle, tattle), предсмъртно хъркане (death rattle), гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, racket, randan, rant, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail), потракване (patter, spatter), гюрултия (hullabaloo, pother, ruction), изтрополявам (rumble by), дърдорко (gabbler, gasbag, pop off, prattler, rattle-brain, rattle-pate, rattler, rattletrap, tattler, tattletale), дрънча (clank, clatter, clink, jangle, jingle, tang, twang), дрънкане (blab, chink, clink, gab, jangle, plunk, tattle, thrum, tinkle), дрънкам (blab, cank, chin, chink, cosher, gab, jangle, jingle, plunk, prate, tinkle, twaddle), движа се с трясък, правя бързо, тропане (clack, pitter patter, rat-a-tat, tattoo), уплашвам (dismay, intimidate, scare), смущавам (become confused, confound, confuse, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, disturb, flurry, gravel, incommode, muddle, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, perturb, put off, put out, ruffle, throw out, unbalance, violate, wake, wilder), хлопам, чукам (drive, hammer, knap, knock, scutch), червено пропадниче, трясък (bang, chunking, clash, crash, din, hurtle, peal, slam, smash, thunder), грохот (crash, din, rumble), трополя (lumber, patter, rumble), стряскам (jerk up, rock, startle), трещя (thunder), тракане на гърмяща змия, тракам (chatter, clank, clatter, pink, spatter), шум на гърмяща змия, шум (ado, ballyhoo, bobbery, boom, buzz, clam, coil, discord, murmur, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, pother, reclame, row, sound, stir, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), клопачка (rattle-box), тропот (clatter, rumble, stamp, trample). (various references) | |
Chinese | 發嘎嘎聲 , 吵闹声. (various references) | |
Czech | rychle dokonèit (polish off), rachotit (lumber, rumble), rachot (clatter, crash, peal, roar, rumble), odbýt (brush off, dismiss, fob, gloss over, polish off, post away, put off, repel, snub), hrèení (roar), drnèet (judder), drnèení, chrastit (jangle), chřestot, chřestítko, chřastìní, řinèení (clang), žvanit (babble, blab, burble, cackle, gabble, gas, natter, palaver, pettifog, piffle, prate, prattle, spout, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, yap). (various references) | |
Danish | raslen (clatter), rangle (baby's rattle), skralde (ratchet, ratchet and pawl, ratchet gearing), klirren (clatter), klang. (various references) | |
Dutch | klikken (accuse, clap, click, denounce), kletteren (clap, clatter, click, crackle, jingle, tinkle), klappen (beat, clap, click, hit, knock, strike), klakken (clap, click). (various references) | |
Esperanto | klaki (clap, click). (various references) | |
Faeroese | smella (clap, click, lap, plash, splash), skrambla (clap, click). (various references) | |
Farsi | وراجی کردن 2 (Blab, Verbalize, Yak, Yaup, Yawp), تلق تلق کردن , تق تق (Clack), تغ تغ کردن , خرخرکردن (Grunt, Purr, Snore), خرخر (Snort), جغجغه (Rattler). (various references) | |
Finnish | rahina (rales), rämisyttää, rämistin, rämistä, räminä (clatter, racket), pärinä (blaring, buzzing), helskyttää (clatter, jingle), kalina (chatter, clatter), kalista (chatter, clatter), kalistella (clank, clatter, jangle), kalske (clanking, clatter), kopistella (make a noise), helistin (triangle), korina, säristä (crack), pärinästä (buzz), korahdus. (various references) | |
French | crécelle, cliquetis, cliqueter, claquer. (various references) | |
German | rasseln (clank, clash, rasp, rattling, to clash, to rattle), rattern (chatter, clatter), Rassel (maraca), Knarre (creak, gat, heater, shooter), Klirren (chink, clang, clank, clash, clink, crackle, crunch, jangle, jingle, rattling, ring, tinkle, to chink, to clank, to clash, to clink), Klapper, klacken (clap, click, crash), Gerassel (clash, rattling). (various references) | |
Greek | κροτάλισμα (crackle, rattat), κροταλίζω (crackle, rattne, swish), τραντάζω (jar, jolt, shake). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לעכס (tinkle), לעצבן (get on one's nerves, irritate, vex), לטרטר (chug, haze, shove around), לנקוש (beat, knock, strike), קשקוש (ringing, tinkling), המיה (moan, rumbling, sound, tumult), טרטור (blast, harassment, hum, noise), נקישה (beating, click, knock, percussion, snap, tap), נהמה (groaning, growling, moaning, roaring, shrieking). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zörgés (burr, clack, clatter, clattering, rustle, rustling), zörög (clatter, clink, to chatter, to clack, to clatter, to jangle), kereplő (clapper, flapper), hörgés, fecsegő személy (bilge artist), csörgõ (rattler), csörgés (bop, buzz, clank, clink, flutter, jingle), csörgő (clanking, clanky, globular bell, rattling), csörög (clank, to clank, to clink, to jangle, to jingle, to rattle). (various references) | |
Icelandic | skrölta (clap, click). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gemerincing (jingle), gelotrak, dencang (clang), berderetak-deretak. (various references) | |
Italian | sonaglio. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | か弱い (be dejected, body trembling, calculating, chattering, Cheer up!, chipping, clash, clatter, crash, dry or rough feeling, feeble, feel disappointed, feel emotionally drained, feel let down, firmly, frail, frozen solid, heartbroken, lose heart, overly serious, peanut brittle, rummage, rustling, shrewd, slam, solidly, solidly built, something come loose, tick-tock, tightly, tough, with a bang, with a clank). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がたがた (clatter). (various references) | |
Korean | 덜걱덜걱 소리나 이끄는 (Rattle-headed). (various references) | |
Manx | gluggarnee, clabberey (rattling). (various references) | |
Papago | chekoshda (ankle rattle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attleray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | matraca (truncheon), chocalho (bib, clapper). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãpãi (chatter, drive, Pat, patter, splash), huruit (burr, clatter, rattling, rumble, whir), ţãcãnit (barmy on the crumpet, chatter, click, crack-brained, kook, loony, rattling, snap), ţãcãniturã, bâzâitoare, bãtaie (battue, beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), bate (bark, baste, bastinado, bay, beat, beat up, beetle, belabour, best, blow, box, bruise, buffet, burst, chastise, chime, clap, club, cob, contend, cuff, curry, dash, defeat, drive, drub, flail, flicker, flog, go, hit, horse, knock, knock in, lace, larrup, lash, lash into, lick, mint, paddle, palpitate, Pat, patter, peal, pound, pulsate, pulse, range, rap, ring, shake up, shine, slap, smite, sound, spank, strike, swinge, switch, tan, tap, tew, thrash, throb, thwack, tick, tinkle, toll, wallop, whip, worst), clãnţãni (bang, chatter, clank, click, clink, tremble), conduce cu vitezã, creasta cocoşului, face zgomot (bang, make noise, roister), flecãri (babble, blab, blether, cackle, chatter, gossip, humbug, palaver, prate, prattle, talk, tattle, tittle tattle), gãlãgie (Babel, bluster, brawling, bustle, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hurly burly, jangle, noise, racket, rhubarb, rioting, row, stir, to-do, tumult), hârâitoare, ţãcãni (chatter, click, snap), huruialã (rattling, rumble), zornãi (chink, clank, clatter, clink, jingle, tinkle), pârâitoare, scârţâitoare, scoate din fire (infuriate), sunãtoare, tãrãboi (affray, brawl, broil, fuss, halloo, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfuffle, racket, riot, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, splatter-dash, the devil among the tailors, to-do, uproar), trãncãnealã (babble, chit chat, clack, clatter, drivel, flippancy, gibber, rigmarole, tattle, yap), trãncãni (Bab, babble, cackle, clack, clash, clatter, cosher, gab, gibber, gossip, jabber, jangle, Maunder, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, talk, tattle, yap), turui (clatter), vâjâitoare, zãngãni (chink, clang, clank, clash, clatter, jingle, rasp), zdrãngãni (jingle, strum, thrum), hodorogi (deteriorate, lumber, rumble). (various references) | |
Russian | трещать (blether, crack, crackle). (various references) | |
Scottish | rotach (a circle of flith on one's clothes, a hand rattle to frighten cattle, a rush at starting, rough weather). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zvečka (rattle-box), zvečati (clang, clink, tang, tinkle), zbuniti (abash, addle, baffle, befuddle, bemuse, bepuzzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, distract, embarrass, faze, maze, nonplus, perplex, perturb, pose, puzzle, stick, stump), torokati (chatter, gabble, prate, tittle tattle), landarati (lop), kožni prstenovi kod zvečarke, kloparati (clatter), klepet, hropac, brzo izgovoriti (rattle off, reel, reel off), čegrtati, čegrtaljka (rattler). (various references) | |
Spanish | carraca (argosy). (various references) | |
Swedish | skramla (clack, clank, clash, clatter, club together, crepitate, jingle), skallra (jar, rattle-box), rossling, rossla, rassla (clank, clatter, jangle). (various references) | |
Turkish | hırıltı (crepitation, growling, grunt, murmur, purring, snarling, souffle, wheeze), çıngıraklı bir bitki, çançan, çok konuşmak (gab), şaşırtmak (addle, amaze, astonish, astound, baffle, bamboozle, bedevil, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bowl over, confound, confuse, daze, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dislocate, disorient, disorientate, distract, embarrass, embrangle, flabbergast, floor, flummox, fuddle, give smb. a tumble, gravel, intrigue, jolt, knock back, mislead, moither, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, perplex, put smb. out of countenance, puzzle, shock, startle, stick, stun, stupefy, surprise, take aback, wow), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), dırdır (chatter, grumbling, jaw, quack), dırdır etmek (grouse, grumble, nag, quack, squawk), çıngırak (bell), hırıldamak (growl, purr, wheeze), vırvır etmek, hırıltı yapmak (pur, purr, snarl), sinir etmek (annoy, bother, discomfit, get on one's nerves, irritate, jangle one's nerves, make angry, nettle, peeve, rasp, rub smb. up the wrong way, string up), tıkırdatmak (click, tap), tıngırdamak (clang, clink, jangle, ting, tinkle, twang), tıngırtı (clink, clinking, jangle, strum, tang, tinkling, twang), takırdamak (clatter), takırtı (clack, clatter), vırvır, gevezelik (babbling, cackle, chattering, chinwag, chitchat, clack, comment, gab, gabble, garrulity, gossip, indiscretion, jaw, jive, loquaciousness, loquacity, mouthiness, prate, prattle, talkativeness, talky-talk, tattle, volubility, windiness, yap). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tyrkyldy (clatter, knock), tarkyldamak (rap), tark, taссyrdamak (peal, thunder), юarkyldy (clatter, knock). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | рухатися з гуркотом, трясти (agitate, jar, jolt, rock, shake), тріскотіти, тріскотня (chirr), тріск (clabber, crack, crackle, crash, crunch, knack, phut, pop, zip), говорити без угаву. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếng lách cách (clack), người lắm lời (blatherskite, bletherskate, bletherskite), người hay nói huyên thiên (chatterer, prater), chuyện ba hoa (tattle), cái trống lắc. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhuglo, rhuglen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | concrepabunt, crepundia, increpa, increpabant, increpabat, increpabit, increpabo, increpandum, increpans, increpantibus, increpare, increparet, increpasti, increpat, increpaveris, increpaverunt, increpavit, increpem, increpet, increpueris, increpuerit, increpui, increpuisti, increpuit. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rattle": rattlebrain, rattlebrained, rattlebrains, rattled, rattler, rattlers, rattles, rattlesnake, rattlesnakes, rattletrap, rattletraps. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rattle": brattle, prattle, sprattle. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rattle": brattled, brattles, prattled, prattler, prattlers, prattles, sprattled, sprattles. (additional references) | |
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"Rattle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: artel, artley, Crittle, Pattle, rantle, ratel, Ratley, ratly, Ratte, Rattee, rattly, Rattue, retitle, Retzlaf, ritel, rotle, rottle, rutle, Ruttle. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rattle" (pronounced ra"tul) |
| 5 | r a" t u l | brattle, prattle. |
| 4 | -a" t u l | battle, cattle, chattel, embattle, tattle. |
| 3 | -t u l | infantile, infertile, accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, chortle, coastal, coincidental, committal, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, crustal, crystal, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, distal, ductile, elemental, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, pedestal, periodontal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: latter. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: alert, alter, artel, later, latte, ratel, taler, tater, tetra, treat. | |
-2 letters: earl, late, lear, rale, rate, real, tael, tale, tare, tart, tate, teal, tear, teat, tela, tret. | |
-3 letters: ale, alt, are, art, ate, att, ear, eat, era, eta, lar, lat, lea, let, rat, ret, tae, tar, tat, tea, tel, tet. | |
-4 letters: ae, al, ar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: battler, blatter, brattle, clatter, flatter, martlet, partlet, platter, prattle, rattled, rattler, rattles, starlet, startle, tartlet, tattler, tertial, tutelar. | |
+2 letters: aflutter, aglitter, alertest, allotter, alterant, battlers, blatters, bractlet, brattled, brattles, clatters, clattery, cultrate, detrital, filtrate, flatters, flattery, laterite, latterly, literate, literati, lustrate, maltreat, maltster, martlets, partlets, platters, prattled, prattler, prattles, raclette, rattlers, rebuttal, remittal, slattern, splatter, sprattle, starlets, startled, startler, startles, tarletan, tartlets, tattlers, tertials, textural, titrable, tolerant, tolerate, tractile, trawlnet, tutelars, tutelary. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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