| 单词 | rattle-skull |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrattle-skull rattle-skull n. originally Scottish & English regional = rattle-brain n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > giddy, light-headed > and noisy rattle-heada1645 rattlepate1682 bully fop1699 rattle-brain1704 rattle-skull1725 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii. 10 How can ye loo that Rattle-scul? 1788 A. Shirrefs Poems (1790) 86 Some rattle-scull..like Geordy Will. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 404 A confused mass of words, the language of a rattle-scull. 1884 ‘J. Strathesk’ More Bits from Blinkbonny 120 He's a rattleskull of a laddie, Charlie, and does things..more out of the exuberant goodness of his heart, than that he means anything in particular. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Rattle-skull, a talkative person; a chatter-box. 1924 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 24 Oct. 13/6 Deportation of parlor rattle-skulls who say, ‘Now stop me if you've heard this one.’ 1993 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 18 Aug. c1 Four synonyms for yahoo: 1. Featherbrain. 2. Rattleskull. 3. Empty-head. 4. Dufus. < as lemmas |
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