clattery
clattery adjective: tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.
Adjective
clattery (comparative more clattery, superlative most clattery)
- Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.
- 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
Examples of clattery in a sentence
- 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:
- The truck’s clattery, loose-valved idle.2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 6, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 99:
Forms of clattery
| comparative | more clattery |
|---|---|
| superlative | most clattery |
Origin of clattery
From clatter + -y.
Questions about clattery
- What does clattery mean?
- Clattery means tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome.
- How do you use clattery in a sentence?
- All his words were poor clattery English like a stutterrer at the front of the class.
- What part of speech is clattery?
- Clattery is an adjective.
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