单词 | rattlepate |
释义 | rattlepaten.ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > [noun] > cavalier or royalist cause > supporter of rattle-head1641 cavalier1642 delinquent1642 long head1642 malignant1642 Cab1644 cavy1645 kebc1645 rattlepate1646 cave1661 heroic1682 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. 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 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). < n.1646 |
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