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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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
rattlepate (plural rattlepates)
- Archaic. 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.
- 1875, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Clever Woman of the Family:
- "he is so quiet and reserved, and has that unlucky ironical way with him that people don't like; especially rattlepates like those"
- Synonym: rattlehead
- 1848, Charles Fenno Hoffman, "The Man in the Reservoir", Greatest Short Stories, Volume 1, P. F. Collier & Son (1915), page 124: