rattlebrain
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rattlebrain
Example Sentences
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It is safe for me, because I am nobody at all, and, moreover, I say whatever is in my thoughts, and am looked upon as a rattlebrain, and not taken seriously.
From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost and, because he says everything, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country.
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee
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