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1. A rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
   - rattle, rale

1. Extraordinarily good or great; used especially as an intensifier
   "had a rattling conversation about politics"
   - fantastic, grand, howling, marvelous [US], marvellous [Brit, Cdn], terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous, magnificent
    
2. Quick and energetic
   "travelling at a rattling rate"
   - alert, brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy

1. Used as an intensifier
   "a rattling good yarn"
   - very, really, real [N. Amer], exceedingly, dirty [Brit], thoroughly, extremely, enormously, tremendously, hugely, staggeringly

1. Make short successive sounds
    
2. Shake and cause to make a rattling noise

Derived forms: rattlings

See also: energetic, extraordinary, rattle off, rattle on, rattler [N. Amer]

Type of: agitate, go, noise, shake, sound

Encyclopedia: Rattle Rattle, Derbyshire