Prittle-prattle :: Prittle-prattle (n.) Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule.
Rattle :: Rattle (v. i.) To make a quick succession of sharp, inharmonious noises, as by the collision of hard and not very sonorous bodies shaken together; to clatter..
Rattle :: Rattle (v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles..
Rattle :: Rattle (v. i.) To make a clatter with the voice; to talk rapidly and idly; to clatter; -- with on or away; as, she rattled on for an hour..
Rattle :: Rattle (v. t.) To cause to make a rattling or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain..
Rattle :: Rattle (v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise..
Rattle :: Rattle (v. t.) Hence, to disconcert; to confuse; as, to rattle one's judgment; to rattle a player in a game..
Rattle :: Rattle (n.) Any organ of an animal having a structure adapted to produce a rattling sound.
Rattle :: Rattle (n.) The noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le..