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rattlecaps

rattlecaps is the plural of rattlecap.

Meaning of rattlecap

Noun

rattlecap (plural rattlecaps)

  1. (obsolete, slang) An unsteady, volatile person.
    • I should write oftener but that my sister Sarah has become such a rattlecap, that she leaves me not a particle of news. Upon my word, she is the greatest talker extant. I am a perfect silence compared with her.1897, Abby Hopper Gibbons, Sarah Hopper Emerson, Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons, page 81

Questions about rattlecaps

What is rattlecaps the plural of?
Rattlecaps is the plural of rattlecap.

Words near rattlecaps in the dictionary

  1. rattlebrained
  2. rattlebrains
  3. rattlebush
  4. rattlebushes
  5. rattlecap
  6. rattlecaps
  7. rattled
  8. rattled a saber
  9. rattled a sabre
  10. rattled about
  11. rattled around

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