Definition of clatter Clatter

/klæˈtɚ/ - [klater] - clat•ter

We found 17 definitions of clatter from 5 different sources.

What does clatter mean?

Noun Plural: clatters
clatter - a rattling noise (often produced by rapid movement); "the shutters clattered against the house"; "the clatter of iron wheels on cobblestones"
		noise incomprehensibility resulting from irrelevant information or meaningless facts or remarks; "all the noise in his speech concealed the fact that he didn't have anything to say"
Verb clatters, clattering, clattered
clatter - make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes"
		clack, brattle
		make noise, noise, resound emit a noise

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clatter (v. i.)
To make a rattling sound by striking hard bodies together; to make a succession of abrupt, rattling sounds.
clatter (v. i.)
To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.
clatter (v. t.)
To make a rattling noise with.
clatter (n.)
A rattling noise, esp. that made by the collision of hard bodies; also, any loud, abrupt sound; a repetition of abrupt sounds.
clatter (n.)
Commotion; disturbance.
clatter (n.)
Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter.

clatter
klat′ėr, n. a repeated rattling noise: a repetition of abrupt, sharp sounds: noisy talk: (Burns) gossip.—v.i. to make rattling sounds: to rattle with the tongue: to talk fast and idly.—v.t. to strike so as to produce a rattling.—adv. Clatt′eringly. [Acc. to Skeat, clatter = clacker, a freq. of Clack.]