rattling
rat ling
- n a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
- v make short successive sounds
- v shake and cause to make a rattling noise
- s extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers
had a rattling conversation about politics - s quick and energetic
traveling at a rattling rate - r used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
a rattling good yarn
- In short, Jahangir rails against the myriad injustices that plague her homeland, a type of cage rattling that doesn't always get popular support.
- The amusing thing about the missile-rattling is that, so far, the Russians are rattling non-existent missiles.
- After years of empty saber rattling, NATO at last unsheathes its sword and strikes at the Bosnian Serbs, punishing them for the massacre of 37 Sarajevans, driving them to the .