clattery

comparative more clattery · superlative most clattery

1. informalTending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.

   The truck’s clattery, loose-valved idle.

   2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 6, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 99

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   There was a small piano in this room, a clattery, wheezy, asthmatic thing, certainly the very worst miscarriage in the way of a piano that the world has seen.

   1880, Mark Twain, chapter 32, in A Tramp Abroad, Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, page 341

   She was so gay and responsive that one did not mind her heavy, running step, or her clattery way with pans.

   1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 1, Chapter 19, pp. 157-158

   All his words were poor clattery English like a stutterrer at the front of the class.

   1982, Don DeLillo, chapter 14, in The Names, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 337