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rattlepate
[ rat-l-peyt ]
noun
- a rattlebrain.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- °ù²¹³Ùt±ô±ð·±è²¹³Ùe»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of rattlepate1
Example Sentences
All the world, take my word, deal in gingerbread ware; Your fine beaus and your belles and your rattlepate rakes— One half are game-nuts, the rest gingerbread cakes; Then in gingerbread coaches we’ve gingerbread lords, And gingerbread soldiers with gingerbread swords.
When Undercut was placed second to Pandriver at the North Country Second Autumn Handicap two years ago, I warned everybody that Wobbling Willie who is half-brother to Rattlepate by Spring Onion, ought to have made a certainty of the race if the gruel-brained idiots who own him had only rubbed his back with Daffy's Elixir twice a-day before going to bed.
"Can't, with a rattlepate like that."
Royal Lowrie is an especially engaging rattlepate, and we do not wonder that he wins forgiveness on all sides.â€
The morning star grew pale and vanished in the clear-flashing delight of sunrise, as Richard rode forth to meet the string of racers; as he noted the varying form and fortune of Rattlepate or Sweet Rosemary, of Yellow Jacket, Morion or Light-o'-Love, over the short fragrant turf of the gallop; as he felt the virile joy which the strength of the horses and the pounding rush of them as they swept past him ever aroused in him.
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