rackle

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹæ.kəl/
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Etymology 1

From Middle English rakyl (“chain”), apparently related to Old Frisian rakels (“chain”), French racle ("the iron ring of a door") (from a Germanic source), and also Middle English rakente, from Old English racente (“chain, fetter”). More at rackan.

Alternative forms

Noun

rackle (countable and uncountable, plural rackles)

  1. (countable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A chain.
  2. (uncountable, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Noisy talk.

Verb

rackle (third-person singular simple present rackles, present participle rackling, simple past and past participle rackled)

  1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To talk noisily; rattle on.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Probably from rack (“to drive; move; go forward rapidly”), alteration of Middle English reken (“to drive; move; tend”), from Old Norse reka, vreka (“to drive; drift; toss”) +‎ -le (“tending or prone to”). Related to Icelandic reka, Swedish vräka, Danish vrage, English wrack.

Adjective

rackle (comparative more rackle, superlative most rackle)

  1. Of a person: rash, impetuous, reckless
  2. Rough, crude
  3. Sturdy in old age

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