aclatter

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English

Etymology

From a- +‎ clatter.

Adjective

aclatter (not comparable)

  1. Clattering, making or filled with a clattering sound.
    • 1907, W. B. Yeats, Deirdre‎, London: A. H. Bullen, page 9:
      I hear the hoofs a-clatter.
    • 1941, Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts‎, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1965, page 188:
      It ain’t an easy job, directing traffic at ’Yde Park Corner. Buses and ’ansom cabs. All a-clatter on the cobbles.
    • 1968, Temple Fielding, Fielding’s Travel Guide to Europe‎, New York: Fielding Publications, page 1126:
      The Biarritz is always remembered by us for its beguilingly venerable lobby aclatter with no less than 82 clocks whose ticks, tocks, cuckoos, roosters, and chimes will keep your ears buzzing until you’ll wish tempus wouldn’t fugit.
    • 2005, Peter Rock, The Bewildered‎, San Francisco: MacAdam/Cage, Part 2, Chapter 15, p. 167:
      Her long, black hair in four braids, snaking around her head, pink plastic barrettes aclatter, she flew across the park

Adverb

aclatter (not comparable)

  1. Clattering, with a clatter.
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