rattlepate
Americannoun
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Origin of rattlepate
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"The place seems suggestive of fancies to you?" we observed in reply to the rattlepate.
From The Man In The Reservoir by Charles Fenno Hoffman
And there are others who resent your making children happy and who sneer at you and call you a foolish old rattlepate!
From A Kidnapped Santa Claus by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
I know I'm a rattlepate, but that's what I'm going to do.
From The Wrong Twin by Harry Leon Wilson
Countess--This rattlepate Figaro, without my sanction-- Count--He did it, eh! and Basilio pretended that a peasant brought it.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
They danced, and Patricia was still the rattlepate.
From The Wrong Twin by Harry Leon Wilson
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