rattletrapn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈratltrap/, U.S.

/ˈrædlˌtræp/

Forms: 1700s– rattletrap; English regional 1800s rottletrap (Dorset), 1800s– rattlethrap (Yorkshire), 1900s– rattletrappe (Devon).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rattle n.¹, rattle v.¹, trap n.¹

Etymology: < either rattle n.¹ or rattle v.¹ + trap n.¹ Sense A. 1 is apparently originally metaphorical, although the nature of the metaphor is unclear; perhaps compare also trapping n.¹ Compare slightly earlier rattling trap n. at rattling adj. and adv. Compounds 2.

A. n.

1. Chiefly in plural. A small or worthless article; an appurtenance, a trapping; a knick-knack, curiosity, or trifle.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > collectively

fiddle-faddle1577

fry1587

small beer1620

pigs and whistles1681

trantlesa1689

rattletrap1742

fewtrils1763

fritter1803

nugae1822

small beer1844

trick1877

trivia1902

1742 Beauty put to its Shifts 50 What you call Rattle-Traps, are the Sacerdotal Vestments and Ornaments.

1766 Goody Two-Shoes (1881) ii. 27 She used to go round to teach the Children with these Rattle-traps in a Basket.

1820 W. Scott Abbot II. iv. 101 Your other rattle-trap yonder at Avenel, which Mrs Lilias bears about on her shoes in the guise of a pair of shoe-buckles.

1878 M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares II. xi. 136 Rattletraps for the mantelpiece, gimcracks for the table.

1898 W. Raymond Two Men o' Mendip xvi The ‘rattle-traps’ could never have fetched half the money in open sale.

1962 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 27 Dec. 12/3 Every man's home is his factory and the products are things like flipperdingers and rattle-traps..and a corn stalk fiddle—the kind of old mountain toys a man can make himself on a cold winter night.

2003 Post Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 Aug. (Neighbors section) 3/2 For baubles and knickknacks, whigmaleeries and rattletraps, trinkets and whatnots, look no farther than Bouckville next week.

a. Something old, rickety, or dilapidated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > dilapidated or ruinous condition > rickety condition > that which is rickety

rattletrap1785

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Rattle traps, a contemptuous name for any curious portable piece of machinery, or philosophical apparatus.

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. vii. 315 A rickety rattle-trap of a wooden ladder.

1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xxxv He'd destroy himself and me too, if I attempted to ride him at such a rattle-trap as that.

1889 A. James Jrnl. 16 June (1934) 93 She strums..on her rattletrap of a piano.

1924 Musical Times 65 64/2 At Cairo..every decent European family has a good pianoforte—it was rare to find an ancient rattle-trap such as many a well-to-do English household is content with.

1955 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 20 Feb. a5/4 The wives and children object to moving to Atchison because they must move into some old rattle-trap of a house.

2003 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 19 Mar. b1 Firefighters from the Isabella Volunteer Fire Department in Fayette County gathered..across the street from their 102-year-old rattletrap of a fire hall.

b. An old or rickety vehicle or vessel.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > covered > coach > rattling

rattler1622

rattle1785

rattletrap1822

1822 Countess of Blessington Magic Lantern 22 The shabby rattle-trap is filled by a group that would require the pencil of Hogarth to paint.

1861 F. F. Tuckett in Peaks, Passes & Glac. 2nd Ser. I. 304 At length..we tore ourselves away, and at eight entered our nondescript rattletrap.

1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Brit. I. 93 The steam service..is conducted by very second-hand old rattle-traps.

1924 Times 5 Nov. 17/5 It was a long drive. The taxicab was even more of a rattle-trap than the train.

1977 Mod. Railways Dec. 463/1 I do not relish the prospect of a connection into Royston's new electric service via a refurbished rattletrap.

1993 D. Coyle Hardball ii. iv. 82 When they saw the car—the Hooptie, they called it, after a rattletrap in a Sir Mix-A-Lot music video—they flocked around it.

a. slang and regional. The mouth. Chiefly in shut your rattletrap. Cf. trap n.¹ 2b. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun]

moutheOE

billa1000

munc1400

mussa1529

mouc1540

gan1567

gob1568

bouche1582

oven1593

taster1596

Pipe Office1609

neba1616

gab1681

gam1724

mouthpiece1738

potato-trap1785

potato-jaw1791

fly-trapc1795

trap1796

mouthie1801

mug1820

gin-trap1824

rattletrap1824

box1830

mouf1836

bread trap1838

puss1844

tater-trap1846

gash1852

kissing trap1854

shop1855

north and south1858

mooey1859

kisser1860

gingerbread-trap1864

bazoo1877

bake1893

tattie-trap1894

yap1900

smush1930

gate1937

cakehole1943

motormouth1976

pie hole1983

geggie1985

1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. ii. 38 Shut your rattle-trap.

1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 310 Come, keep that rattle-trap o' thine shut.

1898 O. Read Yankee from West ii. 30 ‘Why do you want to dress up to meet a fool?’ ‘Shut your rattle-trap.’

b. slang. A talkative person, a chatterer; = rattle n.¹ 6b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person

chaterestrea1250

jangler1303

babbler1366

blabbererc1375

jangleressc1386

talkerc1386

clatterer1388

cacklera1400

languager1436

carperc1440

mamblerc1450

praterc1500

jackdaw?1520

chewet1546

flibbertigibbet1549

clatterfart1552

patterer1552

piec1557

long tongue?1562

prattler1567

piet1574

twattler1577

brawler1581

nimble-chops1581

pratepie1582

roita1585

whittera1585

full-mouth1589

interprater1591

chatterer1592

pianet1594

bablatrice1595

parakeet1598

Bow-bell cockney1600

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worder1606

babliaminy1608

chougha1616

gabbler1624

blatterer1627

magpie1632

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twattle-basket1688

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tongue-pad1699

chatterista1704

rattler1709

morologist1727

chatterbox1774

palaverer1788

gabber1792

whitter-whatter1805

slangwhanger1807

nash-gab1816

pump1823

windbag1827

big mouth1834

gasbag1841

chattermag1844

tattle-monger1848

rattletrap1850

gasser1855

mouth almighty1864

clucker1869

talky-talky1869

gabster1870

loudmouth1870

tonguester1871

palaverista1873

mag1876

jawsmith1887

spieler1894

twitterer1895

yabbler1901

wordster1904

poofter1916

blatherer1920

ear-bender1922

burbler1923

woofer1934

ear-basher1944

motormouth1955

yacker1960

yammerer1978

jay-

1850 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art & Sci. 29 July 147/2 What can the old rattle-trap write about? Her interest-money is not due for another fortnight.

1880 Life in Debtor's Prison x I see you're as great a rattletrap as ever.

1937 Mansfield (Ohio) News Jrnl. 13 Feb. 4/5 Which was the more pressing and precious—the good work I had undertaken or the shallow approval of a lot of fuzzy-minded rattletraps?

1995 Independent (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Features section) 6 It goes with a parallel confession, from this strikingly intelligent and fluent woman, that she is a chronic rattletrap.

B. adj.

†1. Trivial, trifling. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial

eathlyc890

lighteOE

littleOE

small?c1225

singlec1449

easy1474

triflous1509

naughty1526

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puisne1598

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unserious1655

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minute1668

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snitling1682

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Lilliputian1726

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trantlum1838

piffling1848

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potty1860

whipping-snapping1861

tea-gardeny1862

quiddling1863

twaddling1863

fidgeting1865

penny ante1865

feather-weighted1870

jerkwater1877

midget1879

mimsy1880

shirttail1881

two-by-four1885

footle1894

skittery1905

footery1929

Mickey Mouse1931

chickenshit1934

minoritized1945

marginal1952

marginalized1961

tea-party1961

little league1962

marginalizing1977

minnowy1991

1760 Good Housewife's Coat Arms (single sheet) When I was a youth, We had no such rattle-trap whims, I am sure.

2. Old, rickety, dilapidated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety

seely1562

crazy1583

ramshackled1675

creachy1715

rickly1715

rickety1741

palsified1775

shackling1790

ramshackling1815

paralytic1824

rackety1824

rattletrap1824

cocklety1828

ramshackle1830

shickery?1833

shackly1843

shattery1844

shaky1850

ramshackly1857

cockly1859

rachitic1864

ruckly1866

tumble-over1883

palsied1889

rattle-bag1896

shauchly1896

bockety1902

ruggy1929

rickety-rackety1931

ropy1942

1824 London Lit. Gaz. 3 Jan. 11/3 ‘So I hired him a horse.’ ‘That's a cracker (says Tom Butt) seeing as how it was nor more like a horse than your honour, but a broken-back'd rattle-trap ould mare.’

1834 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 115 I ascended an old rattle-trap staircase.

1892 A. I. Ritchie Rec. Tennyson iii. ix. 225 We started almost the next day in a rattle-trap chaise.

1929 E. A. Powell Last Home of Myst. i. 7 Those rattletrap vehicles..which are being rapidly shoved from the streets of Oriental cities by the ubiquitous motor-car.

1995 Countryman Spring 50 As I walked by rich river flats out of Tiverton, a young farmer picked me up in a rattletrap lorry.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rattletrap
释义	rattletrapn.adj. Brit. /ˈratltrap/, U.S. /ˈrædlˌtræp/ Forms: 1700s– rattletrap; English regional 1800s rottletrap (Dorset), 1800s– rattlethrap (Yorkshire), 1900s– rattletrappe (Devon). Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rattle n.¹, rattle v.¹, trap n.¹ Etymology: < either rattle n.¹ or rattle v.¹ + trap n.¹ Sense A. 1 is apparently originally metaphorical, although the nature of the metaphor is unclear; perhaps compare also trapping n.¹ Compare slightly earlier rattling trap n. at rattling adj. and adv. Compounds 2. A. n. 1. Chiefly in plural. A small or worthless article; an appurtenance, a trapping; a knick-knack, curiosity, or trifle. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial > collectively fiddle-faddle1577 fry1587 small beer1620 pigs and whistles1681 trantlesa1689 rattletrap1742 fewtrils1763 fritter1803 nugae1822 small beer1844 trick1877 trivia1902 1742 Beauty put to its Shifts 50 What you call Rattle-Traps, are the Sacerdotal Vestments and Ornaments. 1766 Goody Two-Shoes (1881) ii. 27 She used to go round to teach the Children with these Rattle-traps in a Basket. 1820 W. Scott Abbot II. iv. 101 Your other rattle-trap yonder at Avenel, which Mrs Lilias bears about on her shoes in the guise of a pair of shoe-buckles. 1878 M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares II. xi. 136 Rattletraps for the mantelpiece, gimcracks for the table. 1898 W. Raymond Two Men o' Mendip xvi The ‘rattle-traps’ could never have fetched half the money in open sale. 1962 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 27 Dec. 12/3 Every man's home is his factory and the products are things like flipperdingers and rattle-traps..and a corn stalk fiddle—the kind of old mountain toys a man can make himself on a cold winter night. 2003 Post Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 Aug. (Neighbors section) 3/2 For baubles and knickknacks, whigmaleeries and rattletraps, trinkets and whatnots, look no farther than Bouckville next week. 2. a. Something old, rickety, or dilapidated. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > dilapidated or ruinous condition > rickety condition > that which is rickety rattletrap1785 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Rattle traps, a contemptuous name for any curious portable piece of machinery, or philosophical apparatus. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log II. vii. 315 A rickety rattle-trap of a wooden ladder. 1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xxxv He'd destroy himself and me too, if I attempted to ride him at such a rattle-trap as that. 1889 A. James Jrnl. 16 June (1934) 93 She strums..on her rattletrap of a piano. 1924 Musical Times 65 64/2 At Cairo..every decent European family has a good pianoforte—it was rare to find an ancient rattle-trap such as many a well-to-do English household is content with. 1955 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 20 Feb. a5/4 The wives and children object to moving to Atchison because they must move into some old rattle-trap of a house. 2003 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 19 Mar. b1 Firefighters from the Isabella Volunteer Fire Department in Fayette County gathered..across the street from their 102-year-old rattletrap of a fire hall. b. An old or rickety vehicle or vessel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > covered > coach > rattling rattler1622 rattle1785 rattletrap1822 1822 Countess of Blessington Magic Lantern 22 The shabby rattle-trap is filled by a group that would require the pencil of Hogarth to paint. 1861 F. F. Tuckett in Peaks, Passes & Glac. 2nd Ser. I. 304 At length..we tore ourselves away, and at eight entered our nondescript rattletrap. 1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Brit. I. 93 The steam service..is conducted by very second-hand old rattle-traps. 1924 Times 5 Nov. 17/5 It was a long drive. The taxicab was even more of a rattle-trap than the train. 1977 Mod. Railways Dec. 463/1 I do not relish the prospect of a connection into Royston's new electric service via a refurbished rattletrap. 1993 D. Coyle Hardball ii. iv. 82 When they saw the car—the Hooptie, they called it, after a rattletrap in a Sir Mix-A-Lot music video—they flocked around it. 3. a. slang and regional. The mouth. Chiefly in shut your rattletrap. Cf. trap n.¹ 2b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [noun] moutheOE billa1000 munc1400 mussa1529 mouc1540 gan1567 gob1568 bouche1582 oven1593 taster1596 Pipe Office1609 neba1616 gab1681 gam1724 mouthpiece1738 potato-trap1785 potato-jaw1791 fly-trapc1795 trap1796 mouthie1801 mug1820 gin-trap1824 rattletrap1824 box1830 mouf1836 bread trap1838 puss1844 tater-trap1846 gash1852 kissing trap1854 shop1855 north and south1858 mooey1859 kisser1860 gingerbread-trap1864 bazoo1877 bake1893 tattie-trap1894 yap1900 smush1930 gate1937 cakehole1943 motormouth1976 pie hole1983 geggie1985 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. ii. 38 Shut your rattle-trap. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire 310 Come, keep that rattle-trap o' thine shut. 1898 O. Read Yankee from West ii. 30 ‘Why do you want to dress up to meet a fool?’ ‘Shut your rattle-trap.’ b. slang. A talkative person, a chatterer; = rattle n.¹ 6b. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person chaterestrea1250 jangler1303 babbler1366 blabbererc1375 jangleressc1386 talkerc1386 clatterer1388 cacklera1400 languager1436 carperc1440 mamblerc1450 praterc1500 jackdaw?1520 chewet1546 flibbertigibbet1549 clatterfart1552 patterer1552 piec1557 long tongue?1562 prattler1567 piet1574 twattler1577 brawler1581 nimble-chops1581 pratepie1582 roita1585 whittera1585 full-mouth1589 interprater1591 chatterer1592 pianet1594 bablatrice1595 parakeet1598 Bow-bell cockney1600 prattle-basket1602 bagpipe1603 worder1606 babliaminy1608 chougha1616 gabbler1624 blatterer1627 magpie1632 prate-apace1636 rattlea1637 clack1640 blateroon1647 overtalker1654 prate-roast1671 prattle-box1671 babelard1678 twattle-basket1688 mouth1699 tongue-pad1699 chatterista1704 rattler1709 morologist1727 chatterbox1774 palaverer1788 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 slangwhanger1807 nash-gab1816 pump1823 windbag1827 big mouth1834 gasbag1841 chattermag1844 tattle-monger1848 rattletrap1850 gasser1855 mouth almighty1864 clucker1869 talky-talky1869 gabster1870 loudmouth1870 tonguester1871 palaverista1873 mag1876 jawsmith1887 spieler1894 twitterer1895 yabbler1901 wordster1904 poofter1916 blatherer1920 ear-bender1922 burbler1923 woofer1934 ear-basher1944 motormouth1955 yacker1960 yammerer1978 jay- 1850 Internat. Mag. Lit., Art & Sci. 29 July 147/2 What can the old rattle-trap write about? Her interest-money is not due for another fortnight. 1880 Life in Debtor's Prison x I see you're as great a rattletrap as ever. 1937 Mansfield (Ohio) News Jrnl. 13 Feb. 4/5 Which was the more pressing and precious—the good work I had undertaken or the shallow approval of a lot of fuzzy-minded rattletraps? 1995 Independent (Nexis) 10 Sept. (Features section) 6 It goes with a parallel confession, from this strikingly intelligent and fluent woman, that she is a chronic rattletrap. B. adj. †1. Trivial, trifling. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial eathlyc890 lighteOE littleOE small?c1225 singlec1449 easy1474 triflous1509 naughty1526 slender1530 slight1548 shrimpish1549 slipper1567 truanta1572 toyous1581 trivious1583 mean1585 silly1587 nicea1594 puny?1594 puisne1598 pusill1599 whindling1601 sapless1602 non-significant1603 poor1603 unsignificant1603 flea-bite1605 perishing1605 lank1607 weightless1610 fonda1616 penny farthing1615 triviala1616 unweighty1621 transitory1637 twattling1651 inconsiderate1655 unserious1655 nugal1656 small drink1656 slighty1662 minute1668 paddling1679 snitling1682 retail1697 Lilliputian1726 vain1731 rattletrap1760 peppercornish1762 peppercorn1791 underling1804 venial1806 lightweight1809 floccinaucical1826 small-bore1833 minified1837 trantlum1838 piffling1848 tea-tabular1855 potty1860 whipping-snapping1861 tea-gardeny1862 quiddling1863 twaddling1863 fidgeting1865 penny ante1865 feather-weighted1870 jerkwater1877 midget1879 mimsy1880 shirttail1881 two-by-four1885 footle1894 skittery1905 footery1929 Mickey Mouse1931 chickenshit1934 minoritized1945 marginal1952 marginalized1961 tea-party1961 little league1962 marginalizing1977 minnowy1991 1760 Good Housewife's Coat Arms (single sheet) When I was a youth, We had no such rattle-trap whims, I am sure. 2. Old, rickety, dilapidated. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > dilapidated or ruinous > rickety seely1562 crazy1583 ramshackled1675 creachy1715 rickly1715 rickety1741 palsified1775 shackling1790 ramshackling1815 paralytic1824 rackety1824 rattletrap1824 cocklety1828 ramshackle1830 shickery?1833 shackly1843 shattery1844 shaky1850 ramshackly1857 cockly1859 rachitic1864 ruckly1866 tumble-over1883 palsied1889 rattle-bag1896 shauchly1896 bockety1902 ruggy1929 rickety-rackety1931 ropy1942 1824 London Lit. Gaz. 3 Jan. 11/3 ‘So I hired him a horse.’ ‘That's a cracker (says Tom Butt) seeing as how it was nor more like a horse than your honour, but a broken-back'd rattle-trap ould mare.’ 1834 F. B. Head Bubbles from Brunnen 115 I ascended an old rattle-trap staircase. 1892 A. I. Ritchie Rec. Tennyson iii. ix. 225 We started almost the next day in a rattle-trap chaise. 1929 E. A. Powell Last Home of Myst. i. 7 Those rattletrap vehicles..which are being rapidly shoved from the streets of Oriental cities by the ubiquitous motor-car. 1995 Countryman Spring 50 As I walked by rich river flats out of Tiverton, a young farmer picked me up in a rattletrap lorry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1742
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