rattlepate

plural rattlepates · alternative rattle-pate

1. archaicA chatterbox; someone who talks a lot.

   "The place seems suggestive of fancies to you?" we observed in reply to the rattlepate.

   1848, Charles Fenno Hoffman, "The Man in the Reservoir", Greatest Short Stories, Volume 1, P. F. Collier & Son (1915), page 124

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   he is so quiet and reserved , and has that unlucky ironical way with him that people don't like; especially rattlepates like those

   1875, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Clever Woman of the Family

   Synonyms: rattlehead