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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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English
Etymology
Noun
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: