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rattlepate (plural rattlepates)

A chatterbox; someone who talks a lot.
A volatile, unsteady, or whimsical man or woman.
- 1848, Charles Fenno Hoffman, "The Man in the Reservoir", Greatest Short Stories, Volume 1, P. F. Collier & Son (1915), page 124:
  "The place seems suggestive of fancies to you?" we observed in reply to the rattlepate.

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 ==English==
-===Alternative forms===
-* [[rattle-pate]]
 ===Etymology===
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 '''rattlepate''' (plural '''rattlepates''')
-# ''Archaic.'' A [[chatterbox]]; someone who talks a lot.
+# A [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chatterbox chatterbox]; someone who talks a lot.
 # A volatile, unsteady, or whimsical man or woman.
 #* 1848, Charles Fenno Hoffman, "[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Greatest_Short_Stories_(P._F._Collier_%26_Son)/Volume_1/The_Man_in_the_Reservoir The Man in the Reservoir]", ''Greatest Short Stories'', Volume 1, P. F. Collier & Son (1915), [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Greatest_Short_Stories_(1915).djvu/127 page 124]:
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 ===References===
-* [https://archive.org/details/websters1913dict00websrich Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)]
+* [https://www.websters1913.com/words/Rattlepate Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)]
+* [https://onelook.com/?loc=rza&w=rattlepate OneLook's Search Results for "Rattlepate"]
+===Other Dictionaries' Entries for "Rattlepate" & its Synonym Rattlehead===
+* [https://www.websters1913.com/words/Rattlehead Webster 1913's Entry for "Rattlehead"]
+* [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/rattlepate Dictionary.com's Entry for "Rattlepate"]
+* [https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/rattlepate Collin's Dictionary Entry for "Rattlepate"]