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English
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Etymology
rattle + pate
Noun
rattlepate (plural rattlepates)
- (archaic) A chatterbox; someone who talks a lot.
- 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
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