Rattling vs Wheezing - What's the difference?
rattling | wheezing |
Lively, quick (speech, pace).
(intensifier) good, fine.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}* (James Joyce)
rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
(nautical)
As nouns the difference between rattling and wheezing
is that rattling is rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another) while wheezing is the quality or symptom of breathing with an audible wheeze.As verbs the difference between rattling and wheezing
is that rattling is while wheezing is .As an adjective rattling
is lively, quick (speech, pace).rattling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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. […]”}}
- 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.
