clattering

English

Verb

clattering

1. present participle and gerund of clatter

Adjective

clattering (comparative more clattering, superlative most clattering)

1. In a state or process of being clattered.
   • 2011 November 21, Michael Cragg, “New music: Foxes - Home”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Derived terms

• clatteringly

 

Noun

clattering (plural clatterings)

1. A noise that clatters.
   • 1844, Fredrika Bremer, The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life, page 59:

     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.

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:

     The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.