Meanings
nounrattle-pate (plural rattle-pates)
plural rattle-pates
- alternativeAlternative form of rattlepate.
I ought to have told you of that doctor a fortnight ago; þut, rattle-pate as I am, I forgot all about it.
1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC
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