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clattering

verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

In a state or process of being clattered.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of clatterpresent participle and gerund of clatter

adjective

  1. 1

    In a state or process of being clattered.

    Do we really need another doe-eyed female singer-songwriter with a penchant for electro-pop? Twenty-two-year-old Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, certainly thinks so. Available as a free download via Neon Gold, her debut single Youth is a monster mix of keening vocals, slow-burn electronics and, by the song's end, big clattering drums.

noun

  1. 1

    A noise that clatters.

    Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings, together with low clatterings, approached her ear.

Forms

plural
clatterings
comparative
more clattering
superlative
most clattering
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).