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rattlebrain en · NOUN

Etymology

From rattle + brain.

Meanings

1. A rattlebrained person.
   • a genial young fellow enough to look at, and something of a rattlebrain, to all appearance. 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
   • My mother, peace be with her, when she called me a rattlebrain, was right. 1962, Isaac Bashevis Singer, translated by Isaac Bachevis Singer and Cecil Hemley, The Slave, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1985, Part III, p. 297:

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