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  • 121rattle — ► VERB 1) make or cause to make a rapid succession of short, sharp knocking or clinking sounds. 2) move or travel while making such sounds. 3) (rattle about/around in) be in or occupy (too large a space). 4) informal make nervous, worried, or… …

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  • 122rattler — rattle ► VERB 1) make or cause to make a rapid succession of short, sharp knocking or clinking sounds. 2) move or travel while making such sounds. 3) (rattle about/around in) be in or occupy (too large a space). 4) informal make nervous, worried …

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  • 123rattly — rattle ► VERB 1) make or cause to make a rapid succession of short, sharp knocking or clinking sounds. 2) move or travel while making such sounds. 3) (rattle about/around in) be in or occupy (too large a space). 4) informal make nervous, worried …

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  • 124plink — ☆ plink [pliŋk ] n. [echoic] a light, sharp, ringing or clinking sound vt., vi. 1. to make such sounds on (a piano, banjo, etc.) 2. to shoot at (tin cans or similar targets) …

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  • 125reverberant — adjective having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected a reverberant room the reverberant booms of cannon • Ant: ↑unreverberant • Similar to: ↑bright, ↑brilliant, ↑clinking, ↑ …

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  • 126clinkety-clink — |kliŋk noun Etymology: clinkety + clink (II) : a repeated usually rhythmic clinking sound the clinkety clink of coins in his pocket as he walked compare clinkety clank …

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  • 127scul|lion — «SKUHL yuhn», noun. Archaic. 1. a servant who does the dirty, rough work in a kitchen: »... to hear the clinking of the plates…as the scullion rinsed them and put them by (Samuel Butler). 2. a low, contemptible person. ╂[< Old French… …

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