rattlebrain
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rattlebrain (plural rattlebrains)
- A rattlebrained person.
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 13, in Billy Budd[1], London: Constable & Co.:
- a genial young fellow enough to look at, and something of a rattlebrain, to all appearance.
- 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:
- My mother, peace be with her, when she called me a rattlebrain, was right.