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rattle-pate

rattle-pate is the alternative form of rattlepate.

Meaning of rattlepate

Noun

rattlepate (plural rattlepates)

  1. (archaic) A 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
    Synonyms:
    rattlehead

Forms of rattle-pate

pluralrattle-pates

Questions about rattle-pate

What is rattle-pate the alternative form of?
Rattle-pate is the alternative form of rattlepate.

Words near rattle-pate in the dictionary

  1. rattle the sabre
  2. rattle through
  3. rattle trap
  4. rattle traps
  5. rattle-free
  6. rattle-pate
  7. rattle-pates
  8. rattleback
  9. rattlebacks
  10. rattlebag
  11. rattlebags

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