Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A giddy, chattering person; a rattlepate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An empty, noisy talker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who makes empty, noisy
conversation ; achatterer .
Etymologies
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rattle + head
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Examples
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And while I object to paying taxes to support some rattlehead for the rest of his natural life, I'd rather have it that way than to have someone start a trend of bopping off everybody who has not the ability to absorb the educational level of the scholar.
Highways in Hiding George Oliver Smith 1946
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Spiritualist or other -- I think it was Ophelia Beebe or some rattlehead like her -- got him to go to see a medium who was boardin 'here at the
Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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