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Rattling vs Battling - What's the difference?

rattling | battling |

As adjectives the difference between rattling and battling

is that rattling is lively, quick (speech, pace) while battling is nourishing; fattening.

As nouns the difference between rattling and battling

is that rattling is rattle a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another while battling is a growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.

As verbs the difference between rattling and battling

is that rattling is present participle of lang=en while battling is present participle of lang=en.

rattling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Lively, quick (speech, pace).
  • (intensifier) good, fine.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
      Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}
  • * (James Joyce)
    • I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
  • (nautical)

    • Verb

    (head)

    • battling

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening.
  • That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Nourishing; fattening.
  • * 1873 , Sir John Scott Keltie, The works of the British dramatists :
    • Let it be me; and trust me, Margaret, The meads environ'd with the silver streams, Whose battling pastures fatten all my flocks, Yielding forth fleeces stapled with such wool As Lemnster cannot yield more finer stuff, [...]
  • Fertile.

    • Etymology 2

    From battle.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

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