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Definition of Rattle off
1. Verb. Recite volubly or extravagantly. "He could recite the names of all the chemical elements"
Definition of Rattle off
1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To list or recite quickly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rattle Off
Literary usage of Rattle off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Celebrated Madame Campan: Lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette and by Violette M. Montagu (1914)
"Whereupon the Englishman began to rattle off his English as quickly as we French
rattle off our language. I asked where they were going; the eldest replied ..."
2. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1918)
"Just a rattle off a snake.'' She examined the six-tiered, smoky rattle with a
positive light in her dull, black eyes and crossed herself. ..."
3. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1860)
"... and that is mostly done to allow whatever dirt may be attached to them to get
dry, so that by handling them the most of it will rattle off, and which, ..."
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