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rattlepates

rattlepates is the plural 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

Questions about rattlepates

What is rattlepates the plural of?
Rattlepates is the plural of rattlepate.

Words near rattlepates in the dictionary

  1. rattleless
  2. rattlemice
  3. rattlemouse
  4. rattlepate
  5. rattlepated
  6. rattlepates
  7. rattlepod
  8. rattlepods
  9. rattleproof
  10. rattler
  11. rattler-jumper

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