Rattling

Full definition of rattling

Adjective

1. Lively, quick (speech, pace).
2. (intensifier) good, fine.
   a rattling good lunch
• 1922, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest Chapter 1, “… the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
    Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer,
  With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. …”
• James JoyceI'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.

Noun

1. rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
2. (nautical) Alternative form of ratline

Verb

1. Present participle of rattle