rattlebones

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A tottering person or thing.

    非正式

    […] a rattlebones of a horse!

    A rattlebones of a woman in a little-girl dress came toward him […]

  2. 2.

    A rickety or ramshackle vehicle.

    非正式

    Why, did you expect […] that I should return in the old rattlebones of a britschka which my father bestowed on me at parting? I made a bonfire of it at Milan.

词源

From rattle + bones.

来源：wiktionary