rattling

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Informal Animated; brisk: a rattling conversation about politics.
2. adv. Used as an intensive: "the guiltless gust of a rattling good yarn” ( Anthony Burgess).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The act of making a rattle, clatter, or continuous jarring noise.
2. n. The act of berating or railing at or otherwise assailing or attacking: as, to give one a rattling.
3. Making or adapted for making a rattle; hence, smart; sharp; lively in action, movement, or manners: as, a rattling rider; rattling pace; a rattling game; a rattling girl.
4. Bewilderingly large or conspicuous: as, rattling stakes or bets.
5. n. A corruption of ratline.
6. Extremely; ‘stunning’: as, a rattling good speech.

Wiktionary

1. adj. lively, quick (speech, pace)
2. n. rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
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4. v. present participle of rattle.

WordNet 3.0

1. adv. used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal
2. n. a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)
3. adj. quick and energetic
4. adj. extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers