单词 | rattle-brain |
释义 | ˈrattle-brain [f. rattle n.1 or v.1] 1. An empty-headed noisy fellow.
1709Rumbling Fuddle-Caps 8 Beholding the Rattle⁓brains, marry thought I, I have heard of a Puppy put into a Pye. 1823De Quincey King of Hayti Wks. 1859 XII. 46 He had taken down the conceit of the young rattle⁓brain. 1850Emerson Repr. Men, Shaks. Wks. (Bohn) I. 352 A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost. 2. Headlong noisy behaviour.
1838Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1883) 195 There is much exaggeration and rattle-brain about this fellow. So ˈrattle-brained a., characterized by foolish noisy levity of character or conduct.
1716Addison Freeholder No. 9 ⁋10 A story..concerning a rattle-brained young fellow. 1866J. Timbs Club Life II. 172 The Golden Fleece Club, a rattle-brained society. |

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