adjective. Animated; brisk.

adverb. Used as an intensive.

noun. The act of making a rattle, clatter, or continuous jarring noise.

noun. The act of berating or railing at or otherwise assailing or attacking: as, to give one a rattling.

Making or adapted for making a rattle; hence, smart; sharp; lively in action, movement, or manners: as, a rattling rider; rattling pace; a rattling game; a rattling girl.

Bewilderingly large or conspicuous: as, rattling stakes or bets.

Extremely; ‘stunning’: as, a rattling good speech.

noun. A corruption of ratline.

adjective. lively, quick (speech, pace)

noun. rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)

noun. Alternative form of ratline.

verb. Present participle of rattle.

adverb. used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal

noun. a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)

adjective. quick and energetic

adjective. extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers

"I wish you would continue to give me any fugitive ideas or remarks which may occur to you in the course of your reading; and what you call your rattling way is that of all others which pleases me the most."

energetic  extraordinary  

Gatling  battling  prattling  

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