rattling

Etymology 1

adj

1. Lively, quick (speech, pace).
2. (dated, intensifier) good, fine.
   a rattling good lunch
   “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]” 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
   To say the truth, Sophia, when very young, discerned that Tom, though an idle, thoughtless, rattling rascal, was nobody's enemy but his own […] 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

verb

1. present participle and gerund of rattle

noun

1. rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)

Etymology 2

noun

1. (nautical) Alternative form of ratline