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Rattling vs Wharl - What's the difference?

rattling | wharl |

As nouns the difference between rattling and wharl

is that rattling is rattle a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another while wharl is a rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound.

As an adjective rattling

is lively, quick (speech, pace).

As a verb rattling

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)
  • wharl

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) A rattling or uvular utterance of the r-sound.
  • Synonyms

    * burr