Definition of Clattery

1. Adjective. A rattling sound as of hard things striking together. "The clattery sound of dishes"

Similar to: Noisy

Definition of Clattery

1. Adjective. (informal) Tending to cause a clatter; noisy and possibly cumbersome. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clattery

1. having a rattling noise [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clattery

clathrin
clathrin adaptor proteins
clathrins
clathrochelate
clathrochelated
clathrochelates
clats
clatted
clatter
clattered
clatterer
clatterers
clattering
clatteringly
clatters
clattery (current term)
clattier
clattiest
clatting
clatty
clauber
claucht
clauchted
clauchts
claudetite
claudicant
claudicants
claudication
claudications
claudicatory

Literary usage of Clattery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 by Joseph Warren Chapman, Marblehead (Mass.) (1903)
"clattery, d. Peter and Hannah, bp. Feb. 9, 1717-18. c. R. 1. clattery, s. twin, clattery ... July 29,1739. c. R. 1. clattery, s. clattery and Hannah, bp. ..."

2. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1906)
"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 ..."

3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"589; clattery v. Jones, 96 Mo. 216, 8 SW 554; Mulford v. Peterson, 35 NJL 127; Jacoby's Appeal, 67 Pa. 435; Henderson v. Henderson, 133 Pa. ..."

4. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle (1904)
"Old Crabbe Robinson, visible in the reading room, inquired after you that night: very old, and clattery. Darwin, Owen, etc., were also visible: plenty of ..."

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