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clattersome en · ADJ

Etymology

From clatter + -some.

Meanings

1. Marked by clattering
   • Our valley w d be overrun with London Dublin travellers who will not stop here to view the beauties that are here but will race through on fast and clattersome horses and chaises. 2014, Doris Grumbach, The Ladies:
   • [...] and if the dead in their still and snowbound village glare with longing at this clattersome train, it's because in every season the breath of eros sparks the best and most dangerous weather. 2011, Kathie Bergquist, Windy City Queer:
   • Through congested streets she scurried, taking notice of neither mettlesome horses nor startled pedestrians, oblivious to the clattersome danger of iron hoofs and wheels. 2010, Maggie MacKeever, Dulcie Bligh:

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