clattereth

Verb

clatter (third-person singular simple present clatters, present participle clattering, simple past and past participle clattered)

1. (intransitive) To make a rattling sound.
   • When all the bees are gone to settle, / You clatter still your brazen kettle.1728, Jonathan Swift, “A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […]...
2. (intransitive) To chatter noisily or rapidly.
   • But if that I knewe what his name hight, / For clatering of me I would him ſone quight; / For his falſe lying, of that I ſpake never, / I could make him ſhortly repent him forever: […]c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
3. (Northern England) To hit; to smack.
   • "I can't watch it because I have to go outside and clatter someone in the nuts!”1988, Harry Enfield, Friday Night Live

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