noun
clatter, shaking, patter, noise, racket, rattling, din, knock, clack, clank, roll, rumble, drumming, pitapat, ratatat; see also noise 1.
verb
To make a rattling sound
clatter, drum, clack, knock; see sound 1.
*To talk rapidly and incessantly
chatter, run on, prattle; see babble.
*To disconcert
confuse, discompose, put out, unnerve; see confuse, disturb 2, embarrass 1. See syn. study at embarrass.
See rattle in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
To make or cause to make a succession of short, sharp sounds:
To talk volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially.
To impair or destroy the composure of:
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