rattler

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Anything that rattles.
  2. A rattlesnake. US,informal
    — You watch your step walking out there on the mesa, because in warmer season, the rattlers are up and about, and it's their turf.
  3. A freight train or, (chiefly UK), a passenger train.
    — I'll lay you odds that this old rattler don't get into Shanghai on time.
  4. Any decrepit or noisy vehicle, such as a cart, carriage or train. colloquial
  5. A loud, inconsiderate talker. colloquial,dated
  6. A stunning blow. colloquial,dated
    — […] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.
  7. An impudent lie; a whopper. colloquial,dated

词形变化

rattlers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bead-rattler diamondback rattler jump the rattler Murrumbidgee river rattler rattler-jumper rattler-jumping red rattler sabre-rattler

词源

Etymology tree
English rattle
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English rattler
From rattle + -er.
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