Rattlepate: Difference between revisions
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==English== | ==English== | ||
===Etymology=== | ===Etymology=== | ||
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'''rattlepate''' (plural '''rattlepates''') | '''rattlepate''' (plural '''rattlepates''') | ||
# | # A [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chatterbox chatterbox]; someone who talks a lot. | ||
# A volatile, unsteady, or whimsical man or woman. | # 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]: | #* 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=== | ===References=== | ||
* [https://www.websters1913.com/words/Rattlepate 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"] | |||