rattlebrained

[rat-l-breynd]

adjective

1. foolish; flighty; scatterbrained.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rattlebrained¹

First recorded in 1710–20; rattle ¹ + brain + -ed ³

Example Sentences

She was a rattlebrained fool who would undoubtedly giggle and take it as a great joke when the Cauldron-Born came for him.

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Why, Jack, Jack, what a thoughtless, rattlebrained chap you are.

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Through a rattlebrained friend of theirs, one Nancy Spencer, they agree to take a boy from the Hopeton Orphanage.

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A rattlebrained imp with a horse between her knees from daylight to dark, riding the country wild, insulting old age, and laughing at me and putting the devil into the head of my grandson!

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But I am afraid you are glorifying two rattlebrained chaps who should be in a home for imbeciles instead of in the castle their audacity might have blighted.

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