rattlepate

== English == === Alternative forms === rattle-pate === Etymology === From 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. Synonym: rattlehead === References === “rattlepate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.