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单词 rattlepate
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rattlepaten.

Brit. /ˈratlpeɪt/, U.S. /ˈrædlˌpeɪt/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rattle n.1, pate n.1
Etymology: < rattle n.1 + pate n.1 Compare earlier rattle-pated adj., and also rattle-head n., rattle-brain n., rattle-skull n. at rattle n.1 Compounds.
1. = rattle-head n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > cavalier or royalist cause > supporter of
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1646 W. Prynne Gagge for Long-hair'd Rattle-heads sig. L2 All Rattle pates who 'gainst Round-heads declaime.
2. = rattle-head n. 2.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] > giddy, light-headed > and noisy
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rattlepate1682
bully fop1699
rattle-brain1704
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1682 A. Marsh Ten Pleasures of Marriage viii. 136 Mistris Rattle-pate relates, how miserably, she was troubled with an humour in her breast, when she lay in.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Rattle-pate, a Hot, Maggot-pated Fellow.
1747 B. Hoadly Suspicious Husband iv. i. 50 Adieu, Rattlepate.
1789 Shepherd's Wedding 9 A rattle-pate, as void o' sense as grace.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago II. i. 27 Rattle-pate as I am, I forgot all about it.
1878 Scribner's Monthly May 26/2 To think that you would ask advice of such a giddy rattle-pate as me.
1929 H. A. Vachell Virgin ix. 157 Fifty years hence the granddaughters of these rattlepates would be toeing the line.
1991 Times 24 May 14/3 The capitalist system..seems to be organised, led and operated exclusively by numbskulls, dunces, boobies, dingbats, rattlepates, wallies and jobbernowls.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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