Rattlepate: Difference between revisions
Created page with "==English== ===Alternative forms=== * rattle-pate ===Etymology=== From rattle + pate. ===Noun=== '''rattlepate''' (plural '''rattlepates''') # ''Archaic.'' A 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..." |
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From [ | From [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rattle rattle] + [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pate pate]. | ||
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