Rattlepate: Difference between revisions
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* [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=== | ===Other Dictionaries' Entries for "Rattlepate" & its Synonym Rattlehead=== | ||
Latest revision as of 23:13, 21 March 2026
English
[edit | edit source]Etymology
[edit | edit source]Noun
[edit | edit source]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.
- 1848, Charles Fenno Hoffman, "The Man in the Reservoir", Greatest Short Stories, Volume 1, P. F. Collier & Son (1915), page 124: