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Synonyms for rattletrap


Grammar : Adj
Spell : rat-l-trap
Phonetic Transcription : ˈræt lˌtræp



Définition of rattletrap

Origin :
  • 1766, originally a noun, "knick-knacks, trifles, odds and ends," from rattle (adj.) + trap, perhaps in the sense in traps (n.2). Hence, "a shabby, rattling object," especially a rickety coach or other vehicle (1822). The adjectival sense of "rickety" is recorded from 1834.
  • adj tottery
Example sentences :
  • Then followed the sound of a rattletrap of a wagon approaching.
  • Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton
  • When I called it a rattletrap, I merely meant that it was so for a man of my age.
  • Extract from : « Barchester Towers » by Anthony Trollope
  • He became a quack poet, and hampered his talents by the imposition of a monstrous parade of rattletrap theories and professions.
  • Extract from : « Emerson and Other Essays » by John Jay Chapman
  • So far as this rattletrap 232 old college is concerned, I dont care a rap about leaving it.
  • Extract from : « Marjorie Dean College Junior » by Pauline Lester
  • In the yard stood the Kettledrum rattletrap, and the owner was right glad to see it.
  • Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
  • How wretchedly badly off they were in 1870-71 with their rattletrap needle guns.
  • Extract from : « The Human Slaughter-House » by Wilhelm Lamszus
  • Despite Mounseer Roosso's palaver or rattletrap rubbish like Bob's.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 » by Various
  • Jerry-built shanties with rattletrap aircars grounded around them.
  • Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper
  • The rattletrap followed the long causeway which crossed the salt-marsh and the San Sebastian River.
  • Extract from : « Horace Chase » by Constance Fenimore Woolson
  • She would never have got into that rattletrap way of talking if she had kept school for two years.
  • Extract from : « How To Do It » by Edward Everett Hale

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