Clatter

Quick meaning: Clatter is a verb meaning (intransitive) To make a rattling sound.

Meaning

(intransitive) To make a rattling sound.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To chatter noisily or rapidly.
2. (Northern England) To hit; to smack.
3. A rattling noise; a repetition of abrupt, sharp sounds.
4. A loud disturbance.
5. Noisy talk or chatter.
6. (Ireland, informal) A large group, especially of sibling children; a lot
7. Alternative form of clitter; scree.

Example Sentences

When all the bees are gone to settle, / You clatter still your brazen kettle.

"I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”

Here is a great deale of good matter, / loſt for lacke of telling, / Now ſicker I see, thou doeſt but clatter: / harme may come of melling.

Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, / And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; […]

Word Forms

• clatters
• clattering
• clattered

Synonyms for clatter

Depending on context, synonyms include commotion, racket, clattering, clacking, crackling, crepitation.

Antonyms for clatter

Common opposites include snap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brattle, clack, clitter, clank, racket, rattle.

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