Synonyms for rattletrap

Grammar : Adj

Spell : rat-l-trap

Phonetic Transcription : ˈræt lˌtræp

Définition of rattletrap

Origin : 1766, originally a noun, "knick-knacks, trifles, odds and ends," from rattle (adj.) + trap, perhaps in the sense in traps (n.2). Hence, "a shabby, rattling object," especially a rickety coach or other vehicle (1822). The adjectival sense of "rickety" is recorded from 1834.

adj tottery

Example sentences :

Then followed the sound of a rattletrap of a wagon approaching.
Extract from : « Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout » by Victor Appleton

When I called it a rattletrap, I merely meant that it was so for a man of my age.
Extract from : « Barchester Towers » by Anthony Trollope

He became a quack poet, and hampered his talents by the imposition of a monstrous parade of rattletrap theories and professions.
Extract from : « Emerson and Other Essays » by John Jay Chapman

So far as this rattletrap 232 old college is concerned, I dont care a rap about leaving it.
Extract from : « Marjorie Dean College Junior » by Pauline Lester

In the yard stood the Kettledrum rattletrap, and the owner was right glad to see it.
Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

How wretchedly badly off they were in 1870-71 with their rattletrap needle guns.
Extract from : « The Human Slaughter-House » by Wilhelm Lamszus

Despite Mounseer Roosso's palaver or rattletrap rubbish like Bob's.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 » by Various

Jerry-built shanties with rattletrap aircars grounded around them.
Extract from : « The Cosmic Computer » by Henry Beam Piper

The rattletrap followed the long causeway which crossed the salt-marsh and the San Sebastian River.
Extract from : « Horace Chase » by Constance Fenimore Woolson

She would never have got into that rattletrap way of talking if she had kept school for two years.
Extract from : « How To Do It » by Edward Everett Hale

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